akw@osupyr.UUCP (Andrew Weaver) (08/02/87)
I have been trying to uudecode and deARC files from the Atarinet server in Houston. I have as yet to get one of these stupid file to work on my ST. The file that I have been working on for about two weeks (off and on) is UNITERM.ALL, the most recent (1.7b) version of Simon's UniTerm. The file appears to have been originally uuencoded with Dumas' uuencode (there are trailing 'a's, 'b's, 'c's, 'd's and 'e's at the end of each line.) There is NO table at the top. I have tried to do the 'lrecl 61' and fill the spaces with 'z's as someone suggested here. But nothing works. What happens is that it seems to uudecode fine, but once I try to deARC the bugger it gives me "bad byte in header, 0 bytes skipped" and dies. When I tried to deARC it with an ARC on Unix, it pulled the old "segmentation error: core dumped" (..sigh..) If anyone has any suggestions or have had similar problems, please send e-mail to the address below or reply to the net. I will not have an account here after August 5 so don't send replys here. (but I have a friend with net access, so that'd be fine.) 'Preciate it. -- T * H * E | Andrew Weaver | weaver-a@osu-20.ohio-state-edu O H I O | College of Business | TS6471@OHSTMVS.BITNET S T A T E | Computing Services | @OHSTVMA.BITNET UNIVERSITY | 1775 College Dr Cols, OH 43210 | (614)292-1741@BellNet
jensen@cod.UUCP (Layne K. Jensen) (08/03/87)
In article <54@osupyr.UUCP>, akw@osupyr.UUCP (Andrew Weaver) writes: > > I have been trying to uudecode and deARC files from the Atarinet > server in Houston... The file that I have been working on for about > two weeks (off and on) is UNITERM.ALL, the most recent (1.7b) version > of Simon's UniTerm. > ... > What happens is that it seems to uudecode fine, but once I try > to deARC the bugger it gives me "bad byte in header, 0 bytes skipped" > and dies. When I tried to deARC it with an ARC on Unix, it pulled the > old "segmentation error: core dumped" (..sigh..) > > 'Preciate it. > -- > T * H * E | Andrew Weaver | weaver-a@osu-20.ohio-state-edu > O H I O | College of Business | TS6471@OHSTMVS.BITNET > S T A T E | Computing Services | @OHSTVMA.BITNET > UNIVERSITY | 1775 College Dr Cols, OH 43210 | (614)292-1741@BellNet A few days ago I ftp'd a copy of Uniterm 1.7b from the recently-announced ARPA archive at RADC-SOFTVAX. I had similar problems with it: the Unix ARC crashed with the "segmentation error". On a hunch I looked at a dump of the arc file, and found newline characters at even intervals (every 130 bytes). After removing the SUPPOSED superfluous newlines with a simple C program, it de-ARC'd without complaining, yielding UNITERM.PRG and UNITERM.RSC. However, I haven't had a chance to download the file to my ST yet to see if it works. By the way, it appears that the version I had trouble with is 1.7b 027. I just looked on RADC-SOFTVAX again and they now have the newer version, 029. I grabbed it with ftp, and this one de-ARCs just fine as is. As they say: "I hope this helps." Layne Jensen ...!sdcsvax!noscvax!jensen Naval Ocean Systems Center jensen@nosc.MIL San Diego, CA