CW%APG.PH.UCL.AC.UK@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU (03/14/91)
Howdy,
Just a quicky for those having problems.
Edit the tetris2 file and remove the carriage returns that were
introdued into the larger grobs. You should I hope then have no problem
downloading.
Conradakcs.falco@hpcvbbs.UUCP (Andrey Dolgachev) (03/15/91)
I don't think that's it, becasue there weren't any carriage returns.
Actually, I thought of that as a problem, but then discarded it because
I've been posting those GROB's w/o carriage returns and it's been working
all the time. I never even checked it actually, so that could have been
it. Well, no matter, check the posting where I ASC'd them.
---Falco
.'ervin@pinbot.enet.dec.com (Joseph James Ervin) (03/16/91)
>I don't think that's it, becasue there weren't any carriage returns. >Actually, I thought of that as a problem, but then discarded it because >I've been posting those GROB's w/o carriage returns and it's been working >all the time. I never even checked it actually, so that could have been >it. Well, no matter, check the posting where I ASC'd them. > ---Falco >.' Andrey, I have had to remove line feeds from the PIC1 PIC2 GROBs for every post of TETRIS that I have ever copied. I suspect that they are being inserted by the news software either at your end or at the receiving end. No matter, if they're present, remove them. If not then don't worry about it. :-) Regarding posting TETRIS in ASC, I see your point. Doubling the size of the file via ASC is undesireable. Still, anyone downloading TETRIS obviously has a PC of sorts, and therefore should be able to make room for TETRIS if they need to while they download the ASC string. Given the difficulties that people have been having with TETRIS2, it may be worth considering. By the way, I may have come across a little strong in my last post about the TETRIS2 update. It was not my intent to flame, but to express my desire to eliminate the current fiasco involved with the distribution of software with long GROBs, machine language, and stripped routines. ASC is not an elegant solution, but it is certainly a simple one. I haven't tried downloading the update yet, but I suspect TETRIS2.1 will be a real winner! >>>Joe
cloos@acsu.buffalo.edu (James H. Cloos) (03/16/91)
The copy of the Tetris2 article that made it to buffalo had returns after every so many characters in the GROB's. I had assumed that you put them in, but obviously either hpcvbbs or some site between here and there is doing it to you. ;^) -JimC -- James H. Cloos, Jr. Phone: +1 716 673-1250 cloos@ACSU.Buffalo.EDU Snail: PersonalZipCode: 14048-0772, USA cloos@ub.UUCP Quote: <>
stur0832@mstr.hgc.edu (douglas sturim) (03/16/91)
In article <4812B13DA0000B1E@gacvx2.gac.edu> CW%APG.PH.UCL.AC.UK@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU writes: > > Howdy, > > Just a quicky for those having problems. > > Edit the tetris2 file and remove the carriage returns that were > introdued into the larger grobs. You should I hope then have no problem > downloading. > > Conrad I did this and its still does not download! Doug Sturim
akcs.falco@hpcvbbs.UUCP (Andrey Dolgachev) (03/17/91)
Check out my Friday posting of Tetris --Falco