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From: rminnich@udel.EDU (Ron Minnich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Files on purdue- are they ok?
Message-ID: <359@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: Thu, 16-Jul-87 08:59:28 EDT
Article-I.D.: louie.359
Posted: Thu Jul 16 08:59:28 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jul-87 06:37:03 EDT
Reply-To: rminnich@udel.EDU (Ron Minnich)
Organization: University of Delaware
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Summary: downloading has problems, but asc.purdue.edu may too

The score so far : i sat back, took a deep breath, and pulled hunkpad.c
down and compiled it. runs fine. I ran hunkpad on fixobj, and that worked.
Note that all these files are compressed, pulled over from purdue
on binary, and pulled down to amiga with file type binary.
They were decompressed using the compress program available from 
Purdue, and uudecoded using 4.3bsd. In every case the file on my 
Amiga was the same size as the file on the 4.3 system, so if they
were padded with garbage, it happened either via my uudecode OR
at the source end (i.e. purdue) when they were uploaded to 
whatever machine i ftp'd from.

So i tried the following objects:

claz		hunkpad fixed it, but no dice.
uudecode	hunkpad says it is corrupt.(truncated?)
make		ran without hunkpad at all
juggler		hunkpad fixed it, but movie.data
		appears to be trashed- screen blanks and then it just 
		returns to CLI- i assume it runs under 1.2.
viacom		hunkpad fixed it and then it ran
fixobj		hunkpad fixed it and then it ran

Then i got a letter from a helpful person at MIT telling me 
that i am not alone and that apparently amiga object files at 
Purdue have problems. This is real depressing if true. I really wanted
to show the juggler off and sell the Amiga here, but there appears
to be no chance. 
   This is not the first problem i have had with files from Purdue; 
in fact i never did get ELM source to decompress correctly. 
   I really hate to sound like i am slandering purdue; they are 
performing a wonderful service and i am grateful. But if there 
is a problem we all ought to know about it.
   Thoughts, anyone?


-- 
Ron Minnich