Re: teltnuag CRC error

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From: Stephen B. Baumgarten
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1987 18:22

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In article <1400@cup.portal.com> Tim_M_Dierks@cup.portal.com writes:
>>I retrieved 'teltnuag' from comp.binaries/mac and when I tried to un-binhex
>>it, it gave me a CRC error. I'm not sure which part is giving me the
>>problem.
>
>I had the same problem...  All I did was kill the description text at the
>beginning, and then it worked...  Maybe there was something in there that
>managed to get by the text filter?

I think BinHex just looks for a ':' and starts decoding from there.  It may
be that all the news lines at the top confuse it occasionally.  Once I
started using bhcomb (which strips those lines out), I haven't had a problem.

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Subject: Re: teltnuag CRC error
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Date: Fri, 13-Nov-87 13:22:14 EST
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