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From: darin@nova.laic.uucp (Darin Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Binaries/sources
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Date: 7 Mar 89 18:28:42 GMT
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Unshar'ing and uudecoding on the UNIX side is fine.  If you're on a
VMS machine, it can cause problems.  (I use the VMS machine because it
has a 2400baud modem)  Even though I have uudecode and unshar on my
VMS machine, the zoo file will not survive intact.  This is because
a record format and record size are enforced on the zoo file just
created from uudecode.  If you happen to use a version of kermit,
xmodem, etc that exactly reverses these changes, then you are ok.
However, the most popular terminal programs do not do this.

So your best bet is to transfer the .zuu file to your Amiga and
decode it there (you can also send the shar file).  This doesn't sound
worth mentioning, but I have known a few people who have wasted evenings
retrying the download and eventually giving up on the program and hoping
that it will show up on a Fish disk.

Darin Johnson (leadsv!laic!darin@pyramid.pyramid.com)
	Can you "Spot the Looney"?