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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:	AMIGA NOTES
Notice:	Join us in the NEW conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:	HYDRA::MOORE

Created:	Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:	Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	5378
Total number of notes:	38326

1799.0. "Another downloading question" by RAVEN1::EVERHART () Thu Oct 20 1988 14:36

    Hello,
    	I've been having his really strange problem with downloading
    stuff.  I live in Clemson, SC, but I work in Greenville.  Several
    times, I've seen programs floating around in our public domain archives
    that I really want for my computer, but I can't afford to make long
    distance phone calls and download these at 1200 baud.  So, I decided
    to try mailing UUENCODED versions of the programs to the Clemson
    University Mainframe (IBM 3708) and downloading them from there.
    (Free).  I have managed to send straight text files, and download
    them without any problem.  (ie, the source code for the benchmark)
    However, every time I've tried to send a UUENCODED file, I can't
    seem to decode it properly.  Pieces of it are scrambled.  When I
    run UUDECODE, I get the "Short file" error message, and if it is
    archived, I get all the CRC check error messages.  Can anyone tell
    me what I'm doing wrong?  Is my mainframe scrambling characters?
    I do know that when using the VT100 mode, the ], !, and | characters
    are scrambled, but this shouldn't affect kermit, should it?  Can
    anyone help me?
    
     - Chris
    
    P.S.  Gary, if you're out there, you might know the answer to this
    one.

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1799.1 Blank lines maybe a problem NAC::PLOUFF Cider Season Has Begun Thu Oct 20 1988 14:55 6

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1799.1	Blank lines maybe a problem	NAC::PLOUFF	Cider Season Has Begun	`Thu Oct 20 1988 14:55`	6
	Try looking for blank lines in the middle of the uuencoded file, and get rid of them. I had that problem with some old stuff where somehow in massaging files on the VAX I inserted extra blank lines. The only blank line allowed in a uuencoded file is the one just before the 'end' line. Ah, another possibility... delete everything following the 'end' line.

    Try looking for blank lines in the middle of the uuencoded file,
    and get rid of them.  I had that problem with some old stuff where
    somehow in massaging files on the VAX I inserted extra blank lines.
    The only blank line allowed in a uuencoded file is the one just
    before the 'end' line.  Ah, another possibility... delete everything
    following the 'end' line.