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From: klute%trillian.irb@unido.uucp (Rainer Klute)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Error in Dumas' uud
Summary: uud couldn't decode quikview.uue
Keywords: uud, bug
Message-ID: <1207@laura.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 89 09:12:12 GMT
Sender: root@laura.UUCP
Reply-To: klute%trillian.irb@unido.UUCP (Rainer Klute)
Organization: University of Dortmund, W-Germany
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Dumas' uud failed to decode quikview.uue which was just posted
to comp.binaries.atari.st. With the -d flag on uud gave the
following output:

Begin uudecoding: quikview.arc
No sequence check (1).
Non uuencoded char <^>, line 40 in file: quikview.uue
Bad line =MDH,E^1H2V,1O8   2EH!(&$&A9 \ PL^B0B  [P7.09N8/&#!P D3H)P>:($

Then I tried to decode the stuff with the regular Unix uudecode
and succeeded; a subsequent test of the generated arc also ran
ok. So I deduced that the bug must be in uud.

Does someone have the e-mail address of Jean-Pierre Dumas and
can report the error to him? Alternativly, does somebody have
insight into uud and the uue encoding scheme and write a patch
himself?
  Rainer Klute                  ----   klute@irb.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
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