brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video) (08/07/88)
The recent nine part posting of MSK231EX.ARC in the PC binaries newsgroup has a major problem. The first clue was that the moderator indicated that he ARCd them on his UNIX machine. It didn't sink in until a co-worker called this morning and told me of the problem. What is wrong you ask? Well, all of the text files in the archive are missing the CR/LF sequence that DOS files need. Try displaying them on your PC screen and see what happens. You will need to add CRs to all of the places that have LFs, making CR/LFs. As it turns out, if you have the MKS Toolkit VI program, it will automatically put out CR/LF, when you read in the text file and force out a write (:w). Otherwise you will need to write a progran that will read in each line ending in a LF and put out a CR/LF. Or, you can call the NICBUL RBBS-PC BBS that I run and download the corrected MSK231EX.ARC file. -- harvard-\ att!terminus--\ Mr. Video ucbvax!uwvax.................!nicmad!brown rutgers-/ att-/ decvax--/
edlee@chinet.chi.il.us (Edward Lee) (08/08/88)
In article <2988@nicmad.UUCP> brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video) writes: > >[....] >What is wrong you ask? Well, all of the text files in the archive are missing >the CR/LF sequence that DOS files need. Try displaying them on your PC screen >and see what happens. >[....] The *.EXE files are all right, though. I solved the problem with the text files by typing the following command from MSKERMIT v2.31: SET TRANSLATION IN \0 \13 I then downloaded the text files with MSKERMIT, as text, to my home computer. By the way, the documentation mentions that it is possible to reduce the size of the MSVIBM.EXE file by 15K using a program called EXEPACK. Is EXEPACK a public-domain program? I would like to reduce the size of the file to shorten its loading time. -Ed L