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From: fenske@dfsun1.electro.swri.edu (Robert Fenske Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Zoo and VLT Blues
Message-ID: <1499@dfsun1.electro.swri.edu>
Date: 9 Mar 90 15:05:27 GMT
References: <7917@tank.uchicago.edu>
Reply-To: fenske@dfsun1.electro.swri.edu (Robert Fenske Jr)
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Organization: Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas
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In article <7917@tank.uchicago.edu> ed@zaphod.uchicago.edu (Ed Friedman) writes:
>We have been ftp'ing fish disks from mrcnext, and notice that although
>they extract just fine under UNIX zoo, using Amiga zoo (V. 2.0) we get
>occasional corrupted files, and recently had a zoo file it couldn't
>even get a total listing for.  Is there any more recent version of zoo
>for the Amiga than 2.0?  (I noticed that our UNIX version seems to be 2.01)
>We have tried both kermit and zmodem to transfer our .zoo file from the
>UNIX system to the Amiga, and nothing seems to alter this behavior.  Has
>anyone else observed this sort of behavior?  We are using a A1000, but I
>don't see how that should make any difference.

I have had the same problem using VLT.  I have tried both straight ASCII
capture and kermit under VLT.  The zoo file works fine on UNIX; I uuencode
it, download it (2400 baud), uudecode it, and try to un-zoo it on my A2000.
Zoo fails after extracting a few files with a corrupted dir message.  I
have no evidence that anything was corrupted during downloading, especially
since it uudecodes fine, so I don't know yet where/how the corrupted bits are
creeping in.


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