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From: snuffy@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Michael C Bednar)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Problem with zoo201
Keywords: zoo execution error
Message-ID: <18249@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu>
Date: 1 Jun 89 18:04:56 GMT
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Reply-To: snuffy@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Michael C Bednar)
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Summary:What I did to fix it.

When I attempted to download zoo201 I didn't even get the error messages. The
program simply locked up and I had to reboot my machine(I run an XT clone 
w/640k and dos 3.3).

My solution was to download a copy of uudecode (there are three versions avail-
able in the C.B.I.P. starters kit) and transmit the uuencoded version of zoo201
uudecoding it using my pc. It now works perfectly. The only reason I can think
of for the glitch is that kermit adds garbage to the transmitted file(thus the
increased file size) and that the uudecoding program cleans it up. You should 
be warned however that the decoding process takes considerably longer on the
pc. I think zoo took about 1/2 hr. (and I have a 10mhz turbo installed!).

I hope this helps.

Snuffy

p.s. Since this my first posting, if I did anything wrong I apologize in advance