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From: jobe@wn2.sci.kun.nl (Jo Beerens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Error in Dumas' uud
Message-ID: <387@wn2.sci.kun.nl>
Date: 20 Mar 89 11:53:23 GMT
References: <1207@laura.UUCP>
Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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From article <1207@laura.UUCP>, by klute%trillian.irb@unido.uucp (Rainer Klute):
> 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.

I don't think it's a bug in uud but a wrong character in the character table.
If the table you received looks like this

table
 !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?
@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]~_
begin 644 quikview.arc 

then change the tilde ( ~ character before the underscore ) into
a caret that is a  ^. This should solve the problem.

Jo Beerens
Department of aSTronomy
University of Nijmegen