haines@valkyrie.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mark Haines) (06/03/91)
>How do you go about using those files(i.e. some demos in the EURO folder) that >do not have standard extensions like .DMS, WRP, ZOO, etc... >if I simply download them and then try to executre them it says they are not >object files.... >any helpo out there? > //// >******************************************************////******************** >** Jim Martin The Amiga CAN do it!! //// Can that CPM ** >** CBM Student Rep A3000T (wow) I'll take 2. //// emulator run on my ** >** St. Cloud State, MN \\\\ //// Apple ][ emulator on** >** PsIgOn MaTrIx \\\\//// my Mac emulator on my** >** martin@tigger.stcloud.msus.edu \\\/// Amiga????????? ** >****************************************************************************** I too had this problem. It's one of two things: 1) The error is correct. Some of the files I've downloaded from ab20 are PROBABLY (I can't say for sure) corrupt. 2) If you are using a terminal program that does not truncate downloads, i.e. it receives the file and leaves the buffer characters on the end that XMODEM and the derivative protocols use. To correct this, either use a program that does truncate it or, go ahead and archive the file before downloading it. The files you are refering to are self extracting. By archiving them you won't save space. However, the archiver (pick one, any one will do) will preserve the original file length reguardless of whether or not the protocol removes the buffer characters. I am curious which ones you have had problems with. Some of the files don't execute for me even when I handle the buffering problem. And then some execute but do funny things. I'm guessing that its because they are european demos and it might (I'm no Amiga hardware expert) have something to do with them being written for PAL machines. Anyways, if anyone has kept track of which demos work and which don't, send me mail. I want to compile a list so I don't miss out on demos that actually work, except that I think they don't. (If the previous sentence made sense to you, send me mail because I don't think I even understood it.) Anyways the address is as follows: haines@valkyrie.ecn.uoknor.edu One last thing, anyone know how to get a hold of the ab20 administrator? If I do manage to compile a list, it'd be nice to yank those demos which don't work.
martin@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU (Jim Martin CBM Amiga Rep at St. Cloud State, MN) (06/04/91)
How do you go about using those files (i.e. some demos in the EURO folder) that
do not have standard extensions like .DMS, WRP, ZOO, etc...
if I simply download them and then try to executre them it says they are not
object files....
any helpo out there?
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******************************************************////********************
** Jim Martin The Amiga CAN do it!! //// Can that CPM **
** CBM Student Rep A3000T (wow) I'll take 2. //// emulator run on my **
** St. Cloud State, MN \\\\ //// Apple ][ emulator on**
** PsIgOn MaTrIx \\\\//// my Mac emulator on my**
** martin@tigger.stcloud.msus.edu \\\/// Amiga????????? **
******************************************************************************dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann) (06/04/91)
In article <haines.675892151@valkyrie> haines@valkyrie.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mark Haines) writes: >[...] >One last thing, anyone know how to get a hold of the ab20 administrator? Try sending mail to ftp@ab20.larc.nasa.gov. -- Dave Schaumann | There is no cause so right that one cannot find a fool dave@cs.arizona.edu | following it. - Niven's Law # 16