Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-lcc!mordor!styx!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!CORY.BERKELEY.EDU!dillon From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Juggler Fix (forwarded from Kim) Message-ID: <8612312111.AA01743@cory.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Wed, 31-Dec-86 16:11:23 EST Article-I.D.: cory.8612312111.AA01743 Posted: Wed Dec 31 16:11:23 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 31-Dec-86 20:58:02 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 122 Kim asked me to send this to the net due to problems with her news site. Thus, I have her address at the end instead of mine. -Matt vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv Fix for the Juggler vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv Here is a fix that should take care of most of the problems I've seen mentioned with the recently posted Juggler demo. All that I needed to get it up and running was to delete a single character from one of the uuencoded "movie.data" files that shouldn't be there. The file in question is "file 5 of 8" ... that is, the 4th movie.data file. Here's the 1st few lines of that file for identification purposes: M__\6: :W+__Y4Z6 #X,#3>___PU)" !_ ?QO__^*>0@#_P/[+__Z_3@ M)) 7*+" !_&8O__GT/?___Q9 LHI__GI;"!Q^P%U1__^'R$(5 8#W.__ M_S+A*'0_ ?\O__O](2 @ 0 @$ PC$H= #\Why in the world are we still using braindamaged software like uuencode/ uudecode?! Even lowly binary transfer formats like Intel Hex, or Moto S-recs have checksumming on a per-line basis! And we spend bunches of bucks and time developing protocols like Kermit, [XYZ]modem, and so forth that have error checking capabilities, and yet we ignore simple solutions to a problem that continually *bites* us here on the net ... that of transfering binaries! For all the effort that went into "tightening up" News 2.11 (50% rules, limited length of .signatures, and so on), alot more could have been saved in terms of reducing net.traffic if new versions of uuencode/uudecode had been released with some built-in error checking *and* correcting capability. ECC on a per-line basis shouldn't be terribly expensive these days. Grrrr .... Have a Happy New Year, y'all! /kim P.S. To whoever mentioned that they had trouble getting the posted binary of EGad to work (sorry, I don't remember who) ... make SURE that you don't have any blank lines between the two halves of the uuencoded files ... that'll kill the decode. The posted files worked OK for me. UUCP: {sun,decwrl,hplabs,pyramid,ihnp4,seismo,oliveb,cbosgd}!amdahl!kim DDD: 408-746-8462 USPS: Amdahl Corp. M/S 249, 1250 E. Arques Av, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 CIS: 76535,25 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^