james_jim_woomer@cup.portal.com (03/01/90)
I am in the process of upgrading to ST 1.50. Unfortunately I didn't download the the PC upgrades when they were posted. I have, however, started to pull them off of LISTSERV. My problem is this: I requested the files with the f=uuencode option. After receiving numerous files I decided to try to decode them. I'm having no luck. I've tried the following so far: 1. uudecode in minix. 2. uudecode in unix. Each of the above seem to produce a binary file which I assumed to be in compressed format. I changed their names to foo.Z and tried the minix compress -d on it as well as uncompress with a -b 13 option on unix - each complained that it wasn't compressed format. After 1 & 2 , I requested and received 2 files in LPUNCH format as well as the LPUNCH info packet with the c conversion routine. The LPUNCH conversion didn't work at all. It complains on just about every line - either premature EOF or lines over 80 characters. I'm in the process of debugging this - but I would like to be able to use the uuencoded files I already have. Does anyone have a way out of this - Just what is it I have? Thanks - Jim Woomer.
aubrey@rpp386.cactus.org (Aubrey McIntosh) (03/03/90)
>I am in the process of upgrading to ST 1.50. Unfortunately I didn't >download the the PC upgrades when they were posted. I have, however, >started to pull them off of LISTSERV. My problem is this: > After 1 & 2 , I requested and received 2 files in LPUNCH format as >well as the LPUNCH info packet with the c conversion routine. >The LPUNCH conversion didn't work at all. It complains on just about >every line - either premature EOF or lines over 80 characters. I'm in the >process of debugging this - but I would like to be able to use the uuencoded >files I already have. > > Does anyone have a way out of this - Just what is it I have? I pulled most of the 1.3 material from the ListServ at NoDak. Approximately 10 of the 35or 40 files arrived 'short'. Those files gave some usable info in the shar'ed portions. All the mail headers were over the 80 byte line limit, and Unpunch did not ignore them---the getline routine barfed. I added an Isheader variable, and skipped the abort code while it is true... If I had the old version I'd post the diffs... I suppose I can mail it to anyone who requests it. -- Aubrey McIntosh comp.os.minix, comp.lang.modula2, soc.culture.celtic Austin, TX 78723 1-(512)-452-1540 (v)