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From: wayne@cs.odu.edu (C Wayne Huling)
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Subject: Re: Help needed unpacking archive
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Date: 7 Feb 90 19:50:49 GMT
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In article <1990Feb7.154650.28563@axion.bt.co.uk> dlumby@axion.bt.co.uk (Dave Lumby) writes:

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   From: dlumby@axion.bt.co.uk (Dave Lumby)
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   Date: 7 Feb 90 15:46:50 GMT
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   I recently obtained SIMIBM.ARC from listserv@vm1.nodak.edu. The uuencoded
   file arrived by mail (to a DecStation 2000 running Ultrix) in 8 parts. I
   removed all mail headers and trailers and concatenated parts 1 through 8. I
   transfered the uuencoded file (simibm.uu) to a PC using PC-NFS. When I tried
   to uudecode the file on the PC the uudecode program complained of illegal
   characters.  I next tried uudecode followed by uuencode under Ultrix. The
   resultant file did not match the file I had recieved via mail - I observed
   that where there were `s (backward quotes) in the original file, the file
   produced under Ultrix had space characters. The uuencoded file containing
   spaces did however uudecode on the PC. I then transfered SIMIBM.ARC
   (generated by uudecode under Ultrix) to the PC and attemted to unpack the
   archive. Both ARCE and PKUNPAK complained about CRC errors in all files
   except SIMIBM.INF and SIMDISP.DOC. The same errors also occur when
   attempting to unpack SIMIBM.ARC produced by uudecode on the PC.

   Any ideas of what I am doing wrong??

How do you use the mail server for simtel??

		Wayne
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