ain149e1@merrimack.edu (03/17/90)
Hello out there. Maybe someone out there in net land can solve this one for me. I've been having trouble with taking files off the VAX at school and putting them on the IBM at home. I think I have found the problem, the question is how do I solve it? The problem starts easily enough. The files I brought home, I UUDECODED, and they didn't run. I unzooed or unziped as necessary, and they still didn't run. Then I decided that to be sure, I would encode a program of mine and then decode it to see if they came out the same. So I took some Pascal source code and UUENCODED it. Then I UUDECODED it, and I got the source code back, but low and behold, the thing was double spaced! It wasn't when I encoded it, but I was after decoding. So to test it furthur, I took a letter I had written in PFS First Choice, and printed the contents to a disk to create a text file on the disk. I UUENCODED this and then UUDECODED it. Guess what, same thing. So I know that the problem is on my end. Now it's a question of whether it is the encoding is screwing up causing the decoding to be screwed up or whether the decoding is just screwing up. Anyone have any thoughts? Kevin P.S. The source code is in C. I have it if you are interested, let me know.
georgf@polari.UUCP (George Forsman) (03/18/90)
In article <18822.26015aaa@merrimack.edu> ain149e1@merrimack.edu writes: >Hello out there. > > [discussion of how files become double-spaced after a uuencode/uudecode > cycle] > >Anyone have any thoughts? > >Kevin > >P.S. The source code is in C. I have it if you are interested, let me know. Since you mention the source, I assume that you are compiling it yourself, and not using a "canned" executable. My guess is that an fopen() is lurking in there that opens the file in TEXT (cooked) mode, rather than BINARY (raw) mode. This will cause a translation of CR characters (0x0d) to a CR/LF pair (0x0d/0x0a). Since text files on an IBM already have a CR/LF pair, the cooked file write will translate the CR into CR/LF, then proceed to write the LF from the original CR/LF pair. -George This is, of course, only a best guess at the problem. ---- uucp: ...uw-beaver!sumax!polari!georgf