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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
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Subject: Juggler Fix (forwarded from Kim)
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Date: Wed, 31-Dec-86 16:11:23 EST
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	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.


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