Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rochester!udel!rminnich 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 Lines: 37 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