Re: program not an object module?

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From: Dennis Lee Bieber
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 04:37

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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.
 >
        As mentioned, the files may have had a MacBinary header
attached...

        Another thing to watch out for is zero-padding on the end of
the file to fill a block.  The Amiga is sensitive to zero-padded
executables (this is a problem with using XModem for example -- it
always sends 128byte packets, filling the last block of the file to
make a 128byte length -- Amiga XModem's usually have some sort of
automatic strip operation).

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