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Article #2815Re: HiddenWords, sndMucker, and artillery...
From: Michael Glenn
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1992 16:55
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1992 16:55
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In article <556@rri.UUCP> tim@rri.UUCP (Tim Buck) writes: > In article <1992Oct7.125957.12258@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> fermat@fermat.dartmouth.edu (Michael Glenn) writes: > > > >These three were recently posted to nova/sonata as .tar.Z files. However, > >when I try to uncompress them, it seems to go for awhile, make a file > >about 5-6 megs big, then die for some strange (unpredictable) error. Has > >anyone else had any problems uncompressing these files? Any idea what is > >going wrong for me? > > > It sounds to me like you forgot to use BINARY when you FTPed them. I didn't. After further checking, and downloading to various types of machines, including non-NeXT's, the only conclusion is that these files are corrupt. I suspect that the person who put them there forgot BINARY mode when submitting them. Try downloading them yourself.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ogicse!usenet.coe.montana.edu!rpi!bu.edu!dartvax!news From: fermat@fermat.dartmouth.edu (Michael Glenn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: HiddenWords, sndMucker, and artillery... Message-ID: <1992Oct8.165524.4365@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> Date: 8 Oct 92 16:55:24 GMT Article-I.D.: dartvax.1992Oct8.165524.4365 References: <556@rri.UUCP> Sender: news@dartvax.dartmouth.edu (The News Manager) Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Lines: 19