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- From: olounela@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Olli Lounela)
- Subject: Commented game archives corrupted?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.235305.4078@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:53:05 GMT
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- Hi everybody!
-
- One of these days I uncompressed and unshar'ed (using 'sh <archive>') a
- game from one of the commented games bundles. I was soon horrified as
- it became apparent that the game was corrupt! Some kind of line-eater
- had clipped a few chars from the tail of the game file, and while the
- fix was easy enough, I now fear that all the games are similarily
- corrupt!
-
- Now for the real question: has anybody had similar experiences, and has
- someone found a way to unshar the games correctly? Using unshar program
- instead of 'sh <archive>' seems an obvious first try for a workaround of
- the problem.
-
- If this problem is widespread and no workaround is to be found, I will
- fix all the games by hand and use some other archival program, probably
- tar. Due to the nature of this problem, and since I probably have
- de/recompressed the archives, I'll likely have to snurf them from the
- washington go archive myself to get more uncorrupt files.
-
- Also, another question concerns the names of the games. I have so far
- named them Un*x-style, whiteplayer.blackplayer.# , where # is an
- ordering number and the player names are as they appear in the IGS. If
- people find this difficult, I can and will easily enough edit the
- archives to rename the names -- even if the PC style 8.3 is pretty
- uninformative (not to say distasteful :-).
-
- Whatever the result, I find it important that the archives in
- ftp.u.washington.edu can be faultlessly decompressed.
-
- --
- Olli, 3 dan
-
- E-mail: olounela@cc.helsinki.fi ! .sig still under construction.
- Blame me only for any opinions expressed. ! Never you mind, I don't either.
-