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From: MBERNAR@ERENJ.BITNET (Marcelino Bernardo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: uudecoder
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Date: 27 Apr 89 17:07:26 GMT
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Chris 'ST Guru' Edgington <EDGINGTON_C@WABASH>writes:

>All,
>        Well, I finally figured out the problem I was having with UUDECODE.BAS
>in st basic.  It seems the program was written for a very early version of basi
>
>that had some bugs in it and the program did things that made up for the bugs.
>I am using st basic 1987 version(i think) so it didn't need the program to mak
>up for the bugs because the bugs were already gone.  I decided to totally revam

>the entire program and now it runs alot smoother and faster.  If anyone would
>like a copy of the new UUDECODE.BAS, just send me a mail message requesting it
>your help.
>Chris Edgington

I too am having problems with trying to UUDECODE the file UUCODE.UUE with
UUDECODE.BAS, both from UH-INFO@UHUPVM1.  I am using a 1040stf with the "USA
ST Language Disk".  I get checksum warning from ARCX.TPP when I use it on
the output of UUDECODE.BAS.  The source has comments on it about a bug in
the earlier version of ST Basic.  I reads the first line of the input file
twice.  I have removed the extra read (line 130), but it still doesn't work
right.

I wonder if Chris or some kind soul out there would send me a corrected
version of UUDECODE.BAS for the newer units.  I was told mine has the
mega roms in it.  Without a manual for ST Basic, it's a little difficult
to debug the program. (Note that Atari no longer includes ST Basic manual
with the computer.)

Thanks in advance.

MarcelinoBernardo
Bitnet: mbernar@erenj