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From: wiseman@tellab5.tellabs.com (Jeff Wiseman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Grouch 2.0 -- update on my posting attempts
Message-ID: <2242@tellab5.tellabs.com>
Date: 13 Mar 90 18:55:01 GMT
References: <1238@swbatl.sbc.com> <1242@swbatl.sbc.com>
Reply-To: wiseman@tellab5.UUCP (Jeff Wiseman)
Organization: Tellabs, Inc. Lisle IL
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In article <1242@swbatl.sbc.com> george@swbatl.UUCP (George D. Nincehelser) writes:
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>This seems to cause mcvert to fail.  If I take the offending line
>out of each file, everything is OK.

I do not quite understand your problem but I use elm and mcvert although moving
files between my mac and unix are done using a terminal program and ymodem.

Something that I discovered though may be affecting you. When you run mcvert on
a normal macbinary .sit file, you get a .hqx file whose last line DOES NOT HAVE
A LINE TERMINATOR (ie. new line or carraige return) before the end of file
mark. Ffor some reason, this bothers stuffit. I usually have to go in and edit
the last line to add the newline after the ":" character.

Some editors such as vi have a tendancy to sometimes do this by them selves. So
if you edited the file for any reason, the newline at the tail could
automatically be inserted.

Just a guess that might be pertinent

(by the way, if the last line of a .hqx file generated by mcvert is full,
mcvert can put the ":" on the next line all by itself. This will also cause
problems that can be fixed by just editing the file and moving the ":" back
where it belongs.)

Hope this helps




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