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MandelZot data posting (was Re: MandelZot (Nice Job!))

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From: Dave Platt
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1989 19:09
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In article <5838@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> djlinse@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Dennis Linse) writes:

> I thought I would throw out a 'Nice Job!' to Dave Platt for the
> MandelZot 1.4.1 program that came down the comp.binaries.mac pipeline
> recently.

Thanks, Dennis!

> On a side note:  The samples that came in the third posting would not
> unstuff for me.  They unbinhexed fine, but then gave an error on
> unstuffing.  Was this a widespread occurrence?

Sigh.  I seem to have run afoul of a situation I've read about but had
not actually observed before.  Occasionally, the "Encode BinHex file"
command in StuffIt seems to produce a BinHex file that isn't quite
correct.  The encoded file can be decoded successfully using StuffIt's
"Decode BinHex file" command, but causes BinHex 4.0 report a CRC error.
It appears that the MandelZot data posting fell into this trap.  The
posting that arrived here can be decoded and unstuffed by StuffIt, but
cannot be successfully unhexed by BinHex.

I suggest using StuffIt 1.5.1 to unhex and unstuff the file;  that seems
to work OK for me here.  If there's enough demand from people who aren't
registered StuffIt users, I'll ask the moderator to post a new version
of the data that's been hexed by BinHex 4.0.




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From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
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Subject: MandelZot data posting (was Re: MandelZot (Nice Job!))
Message-ID: <19577@coherent.com>
Date: 27 Jan 89 19:09:09 GMT
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