Re: help needed on uudecode files

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From: Steven Pemberton
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1986 16:42

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In article <118@druxu.UUCP> rwb@druxu.UUCP writes:
> Has anyone been able to move uuencoded files from the net to a 520ST and
> get them to run?  I've downloaded the assembler, the clock, and micro
> EMACS, uudecoded them and tried to run them.  The screen clears (micro
> EMACS asks for parameters since it is a .TTP file), the disk whirls,
> then I get the desk top back.

This can happen if you uudecode first, and then transfer the files with
kermit without using image mode. Then extra characters get inserted in the
binary, and anything can happen.

Steven Pemberton, CWI, Amsterdam; steven@mcvax.uucp

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From: steven@boring.uucp (Steven Pemberton)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Re: help needed on uudecode files
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Date: Tue, 11-Mar-86 11:42:04 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 11 11:42:04 1986
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