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- From: fdm@WLV.IIPO.GTEGSC.COM (Frank D. Malczewski)
- Subject: Re: * Mcvert REALLY acting strange
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.195533.17704@wlbr.iipo.gtegsc.com>
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- References: <1992Jul30.184134.18761@njitgw.njit.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 19:55:33 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul30.184134.18761@njitgw.njit.edu> meg5184@hertz.njit.edu (Starman) writes:
- >For almost two years I've been using mcvert. This time, though there
- >have been a LOT of strange problems with it. Watch this:
- >
- >-=> mcvert -V msword-50a-updater.hqx
- >entering new_in_hqx_file ...
- >... opened msword-50a-updater.hqx
- >Converting WordPatcher.sit type = "APPL", author =
- >"aust"
- > data_len=-230227968 trsrc_len= 72876032
- >hqx_to_bin_fork: fwrite on binfile wrote -230227968 bytes too few
- >
- >last perror (may not be relevent): Error 0
- >mcvert: exiting
- >
- >Ack! I wound up with a 128 byte file from this! Version 1.65 RAN fine
- >before and after NJIT updated their OS. Mcvert 1.70 and 1.80 didn't work
- >at all, so I recompiled 1.65...and it didn't work either! Apparantly,
- >it's some kind of incompatability with the ULTRIX version that we're
- >using.
-
-
- I get the exact same problem on our 4.3BSD VAX, 1.7 and 1.8 are completely
- useless to me. I don't seem to have the 1.65 source readily available to
- see if this also would create a bad binary, but I've made it a point to
- retain that last working binary of mcvert, and it (1.65) works fine.
- Apparently, it's a good thing I did.
-
- --
-
- Frank Malczewski (fdm@wlv.iipo.gtegsc.com)
-