grunau%husc4@HARVARD.HARVARD.EDU (12/07/86)
Hi -- I tried FTP-ing the file LARN.ARC in ASCII format, and got what looked to be the file in one piece ... I edited it, removed the mail headers and junk, and shifted the pieces of the uuencoded thing into one large block. When I uudecoded, it gave me no complaints, and when I downloaded it, (binary mode, of course), ARC with the "l" parameter listed correctly the files that were archived in there. However, when I de-arc-ed it, all the files except for LARN.HLP failed the CRC check! Of course they were far too munged to run (they give me TOS error #35, not surprisingly). I have repeated the process three times, in case I had made some sort of error or that there was some sort of line problems (though of course both FTP and Kermit have error detection in abundance). Do you have any idea what the problem could be? Have any of you successfully downloaded the contents of that text file? BTW, I assumed that since the different pieces of the uuencoded block were stored in the order (2), (1), and (3), that I should re-arrange them into the correct order of (1), (2), and (3), and that they were out of order due to an accident of the way news articles sometimes arrive out of order. Any help on this matter will be greatly appreciated. thanks, JJMG (accessible via husc6!husc4!grunau or grunau_b; husc6 is connected, I believe, to seismo. I have received mail from one of you out there correctly at least once, so there should be no trouble.)