jwhitman@st-louis-emh2.army.mil (Jerry Whitman) (03/02/89)
Last week Russ Forster kindly posted the latest version of FishLibDis Alphabetic Listing. Since then I have been pulling out what little hair I have remaining. I have come to the conclusion that either.... a. I do not know what I am doing. b. I am doing it incorrectly c. My copy is broken d. All of the above Unfortunately Russ did not specify how the listing was packaged, so I made some semi(?) intelligent guesses. The first line was 'BEGIN 750 ff.zoo' so I thought it was probably ZOOed then UUENCODed. UUDECODE did not argue with that idea, but it did say the file was short, and reduced my 30K file to 5K. Immediately my deductive mind realized 'There may be a problem here'! Undaunted, I pressed forward and gave the results to ZOO. ZOO began to do its thing, turned pale and threw up a core dump. Hmm, things are looking dire Watson. Next I stripped off the text from the original message and tried to run that thru UUDECODE with the same result as the previous execution of UUDECODE (as it should be). Moving onward in the face of insurmountable opportunites I decided to give ZOO another crack at it. I fed it a copy of the stripped out versio. ZOO said "This archive is corrupted, get it out of here"! A UNIX Guru (also an AMIGA owner) and I tried several different attacks. They were all repelled with similar disastrous results. My first thought was that the posting was broken, but I watched the mail and no one else seemed to be wounded. That began to cast a shadow upon my technical prowess. ( I know, it would be a short shadow 8^) ) To wit....HHHHEEEEELLLLPPPPP!!!!!! What is broken? The original posting, my copy, or my approach?? Any help would be greatly appreciated. There is a group of us here very interested in getting this listing. Thanks in advance for the fine support this body has become know for. Regards, Jerry
grwalter@watmath.waterloo.edu (Fred Walter) (03/03/89)
In article <10028@louie.udel.EDU> jwhitman@st-louis-emh2.army.mil (Jerry Whitman) writes: >Last week Russ Forster kindly posted the latest version of FishLibDis >Alphabetic Listing. Since then I have been pulling out what little hair >I have remaining. I have come to the conclusion that either.... > a. I do not know what I am doing. > b. I am doing it incorrectly > c. My copy is broken The uuencoded file had trailing spaces stripped off the ends of lines. Some uudecodes will detect a 'short' line and just assume the missing characters should have been spaces. Yours probably doesn't (mine didn't; sigh), so go through the file and add spaces to the ends of lines that have the spaces missing, until they are the same length as the other lines. Then it should uudecode properly. fred
jms@antares.UUCP (Joe Smith) (03/03/89)
In article <10028@louie.udel.EDU> jwhitman@st-louis-emh2.army.mil (Jerry Whitman) writes: >Last week Russ Forster kindly posted the latest version of FishLibDis >Alphabetic Listing. Since then I have been pulling out what little hair >I have remaining. I have come to the conclusion that either.... > a. I do not know what I am doing. > b. I am doing it incorrectly > c. My copy is broken > d. All of the above The answer is "c" >Unfortunately Russ did not specify how the listing was packaged, so I made >some semi(?) intelligent guesses. The first line was 'BEGIN 750 ff.zoo' >so I thought it was probably ZOOed then UUENCODed. UUDECODE did not argue >with that idea, but it did say the file was short, and reduced my 30K file That posting came via BITNET. BITNET has this nasty habit of padding out each line with blanks (as in 80-character card images) and then deleting trailing blanks when the mail is delivered. Including deleting blanks from lines that are supposed to have them. Unfortunatly, Russ used an ancient version of uuencode; the newer versions use ` instead of blank to avoid this problem. Therefore, to fix it, all you have to do is make sure every line is the same length. Add blanks to the lines that are short. Then uudecode will process it and zoo will be happy. Works for me! -- Joe Smith (408)922-6220 | jms@antares.Tymnet.COM or jms@opus.Tymnet.COM McDonnell Douglas FSCO | UUCP: ...!{ames,pyramid}!oliveb!tymix!antares!jms PO Box 49019, MS-D21 | PDP-10:JMS@F74.Tymnet.COM CA license plate:"POPJ P," San Jose, CA 95161-9019 | narrator.device: "I didn't say that, my Amiga did!"
jmsc@inesc.UUCP (Miguel Casteleiro) (03/04/89)
In article <10028@louie.udel.EDU>, jwhitman@st-louis-emh2.army.mil (Jerry Whitman) writes: > Last week Russ Forster kindly posted the latest version of FishLibDis > Alphabetic Listing. [...] > To wit....HHHHEEEEELLLLPPPPP!!!!!! What is broken? The original posting, > my copy, or my approach?? I think the original posting is broken, I coulnd't uudecode it too.