Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!inria!irisa!decouty
From: decouty@irisa.UUCP (Bertrand Decouty)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Error in Dumas' uud
Keywords: uud, bug
Message-ID: <1070@irisa.UUCP>
Date: 20 Mar 89 08:32:48 GMT
References: <1207@laura.UUCP>
Organization: I.R.I.S.A., Rennes, Fr
Lines: 28

In article <1207@laura.UUCP> klute%trillian.irb@unido.UUCP (Rainer Klute) writes:
|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.
|
[...]

Of course:  ^ char does not belong to table data. Change the ~ char in
table and all will be fine!
This is the correct table:
table
!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?
@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_    <-- must be ^, not ~  
begin 644 quikview.arc
M&@A154E#2U!25"Y!0T, TQ,  &H29[CB&,<=   ,8#0  '"!WD "F 8:\ 8

Hope this help.

Bertrand DECOUTY