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Article #37462Re: Error in Dumas' uud
From: Ralph P. Sobek
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1989 11:12
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1989 11:12
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In article <1207@laura.UUCP>, klute%trillian.irb@unido.uucp (Rainer Klute) writes: | Dumas' uud failed to decode quikview.uue which was just posted | to comp.binaries.atari.st. With the -d flag on uud gave the | following output: | | Begin uudecoding: quikview.arc | No sequence check (1). | Non uuencoded char <^>, line 40 in file: quikview.uue | Bad line =MDH,E^1H2V,1O8 2EH!(&$&A9 \ PL^B0B [P7.09N8/&#!P D3H)P>:($ | The problem is that the uud header table became corrupted, but not quikview.uaa! Sounds fishy that one was corrupted without the other!! Anyhow, any uudecode that ignored the table was able to decode the file. Here's the table: table !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>? @ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]~_ begin 644 quikview.arc As any uu-experienced person can see (:-) (thank you Jean-Pierre), the '^' was transformed into '~' which was nowhere to be found further on in the file. That's all. It would be difficult to create a uud to handle this problem automatically. (AI techniques? :-) Cheers, -- Ralph P. Sobek Disclaimer: The above ruminations are my own. ralph@laas.laas.fr Addresses are ordered by importance. ralph@laas.uucp, or ...!uunet!mcvax!laas!ralph If all else fails, try: SOBEK@FRMOP11.BITNET sobek@eclair.Berkeley.EDU
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!lll-winken!uunet!mcvax!inria!laas!ralph From: ralph@laas.laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Error in Dumas' uud Summary: There is *NO* error in Dumas' uud Keywords: uud, bug Message-ID: <315@laas.laas.fr> Date: 29 Mar 89 11:12:49 GMT References: <1207@laura.UUCP> Organization: LAAS-CNRS Toulouse France Lines: 34