Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!rochester!rit!cci632!ccicpg!paulm
From: paulm@ccicpg.UUCP (tmp Paul Moreau usenet acct)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: CAN'T DECODE--HELP!
Summary: The ole truncate and tilde swap problem
Message-ID: <27353@ccicpg.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jun 89 14:29:49 GMT
References: <890606.22525570.008466@SFA.CP6> <21761@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Organization: Computer Consoles Inc. (CPD), Irvine, CA.
Lines: 48

In article <21761@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>, stowe@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Fox in Sox) writes:
> In article <890606.22525570.008466@SFA.CP6> Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET (Z4648252) writes:
> 
>  >    Folks, I know that this is old stuff, but I'm having problems.
> 
> No comments... *grin*
> 
> 
>  >    When I attempt to deARC the programs, I get a BAD FILE--CRC FAILS
>  >CHECK error.  I get this error in spite of all my utilities.
>  >    The .doc files survive.  I can read them.
>  >    Why oh why can't I unencode these files?
> 
> Well, I don't know what kind of network system type CP-6 is on, but I do
> know that on occasion IBM-type machines (read: EBCDIC) have a nasty
> tendency to try to translate characters from what they really should be.
> Perhaps this is the problem you're having.  Unfortunately, I don't remember
> which characters anymore and what the fix is - but perhaps someone does.
> I do remember that when I substituted all those chars in a UUE file, it
> unARCd like a champ.
> 
> Any other oldies out there remember?
> 
> stowe@silver.indiana.bacs.edu                    At night the Ice Weasels come.

   Well, its the old truncate and character swap problem with EBCDIC.
   If you edit the uuencoded bigscrn file and change all the '~' with '^'
   and also append a space character at the end off every line (except the
   first line and the last 3 lines) the thing will uudecode.  You will still
   get a short file error but the resulting ARC file will unarc OK.
   I just tried it and it worked fine.

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