cel@CITHEX.CALTECH.EDU.UUCP (05/05/87)
I've been trying to get the ARCX program that was posted going on my
800, with only a certain amount of luck. The program as posted
uudecodes to a binary load file that looks like:
$FFFF binary file flag
$2416 - $4D38 part1
$0400 - $0510 part2
$02E0 - $02E1 starting address = $3000
$FF1A - $FFFF ?? all $FF's ??
the last segment won't load properly on my system, and it looks like a
control-Z followed by $FF's. I truncated the last piece, and the program
at least loads and starts running, asking for an archive file, and
doing a disk directory properly. When I uudecode JUMBO and have ARCX
work on it, it starts to extract ARC.COM,
(paraphrasing)
<Enter filename or + for directory>
>JUMBO.ARC
DRIVE #1
SCREEN OFF?: N
<Extracting ARC.COM> ... 196 bytes <squeezed>
and just hangs there. Checksums match for uudecoded JUMBO and ARCX when
uudecoded on my 800 and VAX/VMS, so I think they uudecoded okay. Are there
some system dependencies? I have a 48K `plain vanilla' 800, running
OSS's DOSXL. I've also tried Atari DOS 2.0, with the exact same results.
-- Chuck Lane
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