davison@UHNIX2.UH.EDU (Dan Davison) (12/31/89)
Eurosoft folks: I have discovered a very bad problem in the DOS archives on the UH Genbank-Server. [ one user reported: ] > However, none of the program archives in the DOS directory > makes an self-unpacking *.exe file that works. When executed, the computer > just hangs and must be rebooted. So I went back to my originals on my home PC (luckily I kept them..it's a 140 MB hard disk). NONE of the files except UUEMBL.UUE produces a usable .EXE file. After spending all last night and most of today uploading the files and testing (and rebooting and rebooting and rebooting....) everything appears dead. Even EXEMOD, which comes with the MicroSloth C compiler, complained about each file's .exe header. Some experimenting with debug and PAK shows that I did a no-no: most of the files are .PAK archives, not .EXE self-extracting executables. Looking at the script which generated them, sure enough, the /EXE option was left off the PAK command line in most (but not all cases). I will spend the next two days correcting the problem; I expect that by 2 January 1990 all files will be restored on the server, and that they will produce working .exe files. My apologies to all for any problems and wasted time that has resulted from this mixup. dan davison ps. There have been about 300 accesses of the DOS files...but only 3 complaints. ????? -- dr. dan davison/dept. of biochemical and biophysical sciences/univ. of Houston/4800 Calhoun/Houston,TX 77054-5500/davison@uh.edu/DAVISON@UHOU Disclaimer: As always, I speak only for myself, and, usually, only to myself.