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From: ralph@laas.laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Error in Dumas' uud
Summary: There is *NO* error in Dumas' uud
Keywords: uud, bug
Message-ID: <315@laas.laas.fr>
Date: 29 Mar 89 11:12:49 GMT
References: <1207@laura.UUCP>
Organization: LAAS-CNRS Toulouse France
Lines: 34

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!(&$&A9 \ PL^B0B  [P7.09N8/&#!P D3H)P>:($
| 

The problem is that the uud header table became corrupted, but not
quikview.uaa!  Sounds fishy that one was corrupted without the other!!
Anyhow, any uudecode that ignored the table was able to decode the
file.  Here's the table:

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

As any uu-experienced person can see (:-) (thank you Jean-Pierre), the
'^' was transformed into '~' which was nowhere to be found further on
in the file.

That's all.  It would be difficult to create a uud to handle this
problem automatically.  (AI techniques? :-)

Cheers,
-- 
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