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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: REXXShip 2.0: Self-Extrac
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.152334.10283@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 15:23:34 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep8.152118.10166@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >>Tried running it per instructions and all I got was a file of binary
- >>garbage after running it. I assume that if I got the messages: Decoding
- >>and then "Done" it had created the correct file. Perhaps it was corrupted
- >>enroute.
- >>A lot of people are now getting this conference via UUPCB, which splits
- >>messages up into 100 line segments as that is what PC Board is expecting.
- >>If you are going to send this out in the future, you might want to keep
- >>that in mind. Perhaps REXXShip might reasonably be expected to have a
- >>count on each line which is checked to see if the sections got put together
- >>wrong...
- >Interesting. Perhaps the parts were put together in the wrong order.
- >Did you get some readable material at the start of the file?
-
- Incidently, there are a couple ways to combat this problem. One way
- is to use CRC error checking (which catches more errors than simple
- checksum). Anyone have a _tiny_ routine to generate a 16-bit CRC?
-
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