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- From: Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.bc.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: program not an object module?
- Date: Wed, 17 Apr 96 12:31:33 -0800
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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- Message-ID: <84959-829769493@mindlink.bc.ca>
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- In article <koehler-1704961127180001@lem.iam.uni-bonn.de>
- koehler@rhein.iam.uni-bonn.de (Kai Koehler) writes:
-
- >I want to grab programs for my old Amiga 2000 from the net using my
- >PowerMac. But when I try to start the programs on the Amiga, I always
- >get an error message 121: "File is not an object module". This happens
- >even with lha_e138.run. The Amiga has a rather old hardware & software,
- >system 1.2 version 33.
-
- This is the standard error message when an executable file has been
- corrupted.
-
- >Maybe the problem is caused by the way how I transport the programs
- >to the Amiga: I store them (decompressed) on a PC disk with the Mac,
- >then I use a drive connected to the Janus PC card of the Amiga and the
- >AWRITE command of the Janus card to write them to the Amiga's harddisk.
- >I do not really believe that I lose or disturb data during this
- >transport, as the custom icons of the programs appear the proper
- >way; also, I was able to transport graphics without problems.
- >
- >Does anybody has any idea what I'm doing wrong? Any help is much
- >appreciated!
-
- I don't know much about the Mac side, but are you using the /b switch
- with AWRITE? If not, the file will get horribly mangled by the
- end-of-line translation between MS-DOS and Amiga files.
-
- A similar corruption will occur during FTP transfers if you don't
- ensure that you're in binary mode. Use the "binary" command to FTP
- if necessary.
-
- Perhaps a similar corruption occurs within the Mac.
-
- Generally, if the file gets corrupted by text/binary conversion,
- its size will change. Compare the size of the file on the net with
- the sizes on the MS-DOS disk and on the Amiga. They should all be
- the same. (And give thanks to the makers of the Amiga and Unix
- file systems for not creating this silly distinction between text
- and binary files.)
-
- Hope this helps...
-
- Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.bc.ca
- I used to be indecisive, but now I'm not so sure.
-
-