ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey) (06/07/88)
I have had trouble de-ARCing VKILLER. Before bulletin boards post it,
they shoudl check to see that they can de-ARC what they have.
Perhaps it should be posted again.
Here is an edited transcript of a session here, recently:
You can see that a failure in the test of cyclic redundancy codes (CRC).
Script started on Mon Jun 6 19:29:24 1988
% arc v vkiller.arc
Name Length Stowage SF Size now Date Time CRC
============ ======== ======== ==== ======== ========= ====== ====
README 1575 Crunched 33% 1060 2 Jun 88 7:22a 8b5c
VKILLER.PRG 55957 Crunched 44% 31593 2 Jun 88 7:23a e085
VKILLER.RSC 14316 Crunched 49% 7328 2 Jun 88 7:23a 9838
==== ======== ==== ========
Total 3 71848 45% 39981
% arc t vkiller.arc
Testing archive...
File: README okay
File: VKILLER.PRG WARNING: File VKILLER.PRG fails CRC check
File: VKILLER.RSC okay
2 errors detected
%
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L. J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo.
ljdickey@WATDCS.UWaterloo.ca ljdickey@water.BITNET
ljdickey@water.UUCP ..!uunet!watmath!water!ljdickey
ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey) (06/10/88)
In article <1623@water.waterloo.edu> ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu I wrote: >I have had trouble de-ARCing VKILLER. Before bulletin boards post it, >they should check to see that they can de-ARC what they have. Steven Grimm sent me a clean copy (Thanks Steven). I found the one character that was corrupted and report, in case you also had the same problem. The posted version "vkiller.uaa" (as I received it) had this line: MD 32D@J4@"PC00\,P ( \),!8 848 '<8 '< =< /L3P 4 "Y8@%2P BMd I seems that it should have been: MD 32D@J4@"PC00\,P ( \),!8 848 '<8 '< =< /D3P 4 "Y8@%2P BMd If you have trouble de-ARCing VKILLER, check the UUencoded source, and see if it has the string "L3P" in it. If so, try replacing that one letter "L" with a "D" and try again. -- L. J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo. ljdickey@WATDCS.UWaterloo.ca ljdickey@water.BITNET ljdickey@water.UUCP ..!uunet!watmath!water!ljdickey ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu
jpdres13@usl-pc.UUCP (John Joubert) (06/17/88)
------ Nothing wrong with the posting of Vkiller here. I uudecoded and unarced it just fine. By the way, this is one VERY nice program. Mucho kudos to the author! This is program is a joy to work with, as it leaves the user very reassured in the safety of his disks upon completion. I was able to check out all my disks and am happy to report that I was virus free! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Joubert | /\ | /\ | _ jpdres13@usl-pc.USL or ... | \|<>|>|> \|<>|>|><`|`| ut-sally!usl!usl-pc!jpdres13 |-----/|-------/|---------------------- GEnie: J.JOUBERT | \/ \/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------------