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From: KMILES@CC.USU.EDU ("Kurt Miles, VAX Consultant")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: RE: executioner prob.
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Date: 6 Apr 89 19:06:00 GMT
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I have said this before, but I've never seen it on the net, so here goes...

Items in Executioner format have at the end of th listing a line of 
code, a blank line, the save command and a $f00 or some such go.
That blank line must be BLANK!.   No spaces, nothing, just a carriage
return.  This apparently tell the decode routine to stop decoding.  If
there is anything in that line, the program will save the wrong file type, or
crash into the monitor, or on ocassion, work right.  (Weird, huh?)
Anyway, if tha l9ne is blank ( and you may have to edit it) it will work right
all the time.

I find our VAX will usually stick about 5 spaceds in that blank line, so
I routinely edit the file before downloading it to my apple.

It took me about three mojnths to figure this out, and then only because 
I saw a passing reference to the blank line in someone else's comments.

Good luck

Kurt Miles
KMILES@USU  (bitnet)