HIGGS_M%P1.LANCSP.AC.UK@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Mike Higgs) (08/08/89)
Hi everyone, me again,
I just got the fixes.atari01 -10 down to my minix disks, and tried to uudecode
the files. At first I kept getting 'short file' and 'no end' etc. When I looked
at the files with mined, at the end of each line, there is a reverse video
upper case M. I deleted this from around the 'end' of the file and it decoded
OK. ( it seemed ). The file length was OK but the sum was different than it
should have been and the programs give Bus Error when tried.
I tried using gres but I can't seem to put in the M character to search for. I
assume this is the problem, but can't seem to get rid of it, apart from going
through it a line at a time in mined. Can anybody help?
If I could enter the reverse M character into gres and tell it to replace it
with
nothing, it might work. ( I need sed which incidentally was the file I tried
first!! ).
Mike Higgs
School of Computing, JANET : higgs_m@uk.ac.lancsp.p1
Lancashire Polytechnic, EARN : higgs_m@p1.lancsp.ac.uk
Preston,
U.K.
PR1 2TQ.VBRANDT%DBNUAMA1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (08/09/89)
Hello all, Mike Higgs <HIGGS_M%P1.LANCSP.AC.UK@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU> writes: >I just got the fixes.atari01 -10 down to my minix disks, and tried to uudecode >the files. ... > ....at the end of each line, there is a reverse video Mike, I think you forgot the -a switch while using tosread to get the uuencoded files to your Minix disk. This switch tells tosread to leave out ASCII CR 0x0d characters, since the standard *nix EOLN is a single LF 0x0a. The extra CRs in turn confuse the uudecode program. If you use -a, you should be abble to uudecode just fine. If you get the message "no end line", you can use a recently posted fix to uudecode, which avoids this. Alternatively, try to append/delete a blank line to the end of the file (forgot which). One of these days I'm going to port the Dumas UUE/UUD package. If someone has already done this, maybe he/she can post the binary (sources are available at several servers). Hope this helps. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bitnet: VBRANDT@DBNUAMA1 (will go away late '89) Volker A. Brandt UNM409@DBNRHRZ1 (soon) Angewandte Mathematik UUCP: ...!unido!DBNUAMA1.bitnet!vbrandt (Bonn, West Germany) ARPAnet: VBRANDT%DBNUAMA1.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
SQ79%liverpool.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk (Mark Powell) (08/09/89)
When transferring ASCII files (as uudecoded files are) use the -a switch on
tos. This will give you the correct end of line marker. The inverse M is the CR
character from the CR/LF pair. Minix only uses a LF to mark the end of line.
You could also do with getting yourself a decent uudecode, as the supplied
minix version is pretty poor. The best uudecoder around, uud.c, is available
on the bradford PD server. Send "help" to server@brad.marvin for help on how to
use this server.
Mark Powell
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USENET : ...!mcvax!ukc!liv.ac.uk!sq79pcf@galadriel.bt.co.uk (Pete French) (08/10/89)
From article <21287@louie.udel.EDU>, by HIGGS_M%P1.LANCSP.AC.UK@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Mike Higgs): > at the files with mined, at the end of each line, there is a reverse video > upper case M. I deleted this from around the 'end' of the file and it decoded > OK. ( it seemed ). The file length was OK but the sum was different than it I get this problem on uuencoded files a lot - especially when moving from DOS to UNIX via Ethernet or something. It occurs because of one machine wanting CR-LF as an end-of-line and the other wanting just CR or LF. There is no way I have found of putting the ^M character into a serch sequence. However ... all lines end with it so you can simply delete the last character of each line using : s/.$// Hope this helps. -Pete French.
hjg@amms4.UUCP (Harry Gross) (08/14/89)
In article <316@galadriel.bt.co.uk> pcf@galadriel.bt.co.uk (Pete French) writes: >From article <21287@louie.udel.EDU>, by HIGGS_M%P1.LANCSP.AC.UK@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Mike Higgs): >There is no way I have found of putting the ^M character into a serch sequence. >However ... all lines end with it so you can simply delete the last character >of each line using : I found a way - use elle. The control character can be included in a search command by preceding it with the character ctrl-\ (I think that was what it was, my docs are at home, and I am at work). At any rate, the specific character is in the elle manual, and it works just fine. A single command will remove all of the ^M's from the file. Cheers, -- Harry Gross | reserved for | something really Internet: hjg@amms4.UUCP (we're working on registering)| clever - any UUCP: {jyacc, rna, bklyncis}!amms4!hjg | suggestions?