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From: jms@antares.UUCP (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: BROKEN FISH ALPHALIST
Summary: Add trailing blanks before uudecoding
Message-ID: <414@antares.UUCP>
Date: 3 Mar 89 07:39:13 GMT
References: <10028@louie.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: jms@antares.UUCP (Joe Smith)
Organization: Tymnet QSATS, San Jose CA
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In article <10028@louie.udel.EDU> jwhitman@st-louis-emh2.army.mil (Jerry Whitman) writes:
>Last week Russ Forster kindly posted the latest version of FishLibDis
>Alphabetic Listing.  Since then I have been pulling out what little hair
>I have remaining.  I have come to the conclusion that either....
>  a.  I do not know what I am doing.
>  b.  I am doing it incorrectly
>  c.  My copy is broken
>  d.  All of the above

	The answer is "c"

>Unfortunately Russ did not specify how the listing was packaged, so I made
>some semi(?) intelligent guesses.  The first line was 'BEGIN 750 ff.zoo'
>so I thought it was probably ZOOed then UUENCODed.  UUDECODE did not argue
>with that idea, but it did say the file was short, and reduced my 30K file

That posting came via BITNET.  BITNET has this nasty habit of padding out
each line with blanks (as in 80-character card images) and then deleting
trailing blanks when the mail is delivered.  Including deleting blanks from
lines that are supposed to have them.  Unfortunatly, Russ used an ancient
version of uuencode; the newer versions use ` instead of blank to avoid
this problem.

Therefore, to fix it, all you have to do is make sure every line is the
same length.  Add blanks to the lines that are short.  Then uudecode will
process it and zoo will be happy.  Works for me!
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