NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #20/NN_1992_20.iso/spool/comp/os/os2/apps/5966

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Path: sparky!uunet!nevada.edu!jimi!big-joe.cs.unlv.edu!slumos
From: [e-mail] (Steve E. Lumos)
Subject: Re: REXXShip 2.0: Self-Extrac
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Organization: UNLV Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 00:02:09 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Michael Hagerty)  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...
)
) Regards, Mikey
) ---
)  . JABBER v1.2 #42 . Basset Hounds make better friends than most people.
)
We should NOT start limiting messages to 100 lines. The 64k limit is bad
enough. Start flaming Clark Developement to fix PCB. I'm sick of the 100
line limit when I go BBSing already, I don't want to have to put up with
it here too.
--
Steve Lumos - [e-mail]