e299-an@sim.uucp (David Egert) (08/24/88)
I just discovered this newsgroup and spent a good part of my day trying to download some of the programs in comp.binaries.ibm.pc to my PC. Since what I tried didn't seem to work I was wondering if one of you experts could answer a few questions. First an unrelated question: I would desparately like to get Omega but missed the first postings due to ignorance of net use. When will it be reposted? Now for some more techincal stuff: I was attempting to get a game called Haunted House which was posted recent- ly on comp.binaries.ibm.pc. The steps I took were: 1) Save the posting to my unix account 2) Use the command "sed '/^END/,/^BEGIN/d' <filename> | uudecode To do this two files had to be "concatenated." Does this automatically happen when you save them consecutively to the same file? Also, is my syntax correct? I thought it was because the command produced a file called haunted.arc. 3) I downloaded haunted.arc using xmodem to send text. 4) I attempted to dearc haunted.arc using pkxarc. This produced an .exe file 600K (yes, 600) long, when as far as I could discern from the brief header on the posting, it should have been more like 80K. I also got a warning that the CRC test failed. Am I using the wrong kind of dearcing program? 5) Tried to run it anyway and it crashed my system. Is it possible to ruin the program by simply loading it into a text editor like vi, even if you make no changes? I did that once, too. Well, I would greatly appreciate any bits of enlightenment you people in netland could give me. Please e-mail or answer on this here newsgroup THANKS IN ADVANCE Josh Dubey
svirsky@ttidca.TTI.COM (William Svirsky) (08/25/88)
In article <5193@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> e299-an@sim.UUCP (David Egert) writes:
+First an unrelated question:
+I would desparately like to get Omega but missed the first postings due to
+ignorance of net use. When will it be reposted?
It won't, or at least shouldn't, be. It is not cost effective to repost
unless a large number of sites got munged articles or never got the articles
at all. You can try to get them from an archive site or, if you missed
only a few, you can possibly get someone to e-mail you the missing parts,
which still costs net-bucks but is not as bad.
+I was attempting to get a game called Haunted House which was posted recent-
+ly on comp.binaries.ibm.pc. The steps I took were:
+
+1) Save the posting to my unix account
+2) Use the command "sed '/^END/,/^BEGIN/d' <filename+ | uudecode
+ To do this two files had to be "concatenated." Does this automatically
+ happen when you save them consecutively to the same file? Also, is my
+ syntax correct? I thought it was because the command produced a file
+ called haunted.arc.
Yes, the readnews programs I am familiar with always append articles to an
existing file.
+3) I downloaded haunted.arc using xmodem to send text.
An .arc file is a *binary* file. Use xmodem/binary to download it to your PC.
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Bill Svirsky, Citicorp+TTI, 3100 Ocean Park Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90405
Work phone: 213-450-9111 x2597
svirsky@ttidca.tti.com | ...!{csun,psivax,rdlvax,retix}!ttidca!svirskyhartung@sdics.ucsd.EDU (Jeff Hartung) (09/02/88)
In article <3091@ttidca.TTI.COM> svirsky@ttidcc.tti.com (William Svirsky) writes: >In article <5193@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> e299-an@sim.UUCP (David Egert) writes: >+3) I downloaded haunted.arc using xmodem to send text. > >An .arc file is a *binary* file. Use xmodem/binary to download it to your PC. > I uudecoded haunted on a vax under 4.3BSD then used c-kermit on the vax (remote), remembering to "set file type binary" and ms-kermit on an ibm-pc, making sure that the parity was off, and transfered the files to the PC. Although every other file I've tried this on comes through fine, and I can then use pkxarc to unarchive the .EXE files, etc., haunted gave me a warning when I pkxarc'd the file and sure enough, it doesn't run either. Too bad, it looked kind-of interesting. Did anyone else have this problem? I went back to comp.binaries.ibm.pc *three* times, wrote it out, uudecoded it, transfered it, etc. but always the same thing. -- --Jeff Hartung-- ARPA - hartung@sdics.ucsd.edu UUCP - !ucsd!sdics!hartung