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From: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Files on purdue- are they ok?
Message-ID: <1588@xanth.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 18-Jul-87 21:54:58 EDT
Article-I.D.: xanth.1588
Posted: Sat Jul 18 21:54:58 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 19-Jul-87 19:47:27 EDT
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Reply-To: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va.
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Summary: watch that compress!


Ron, and anybody else who might get bitten by this one:

I have no idea if this is your problem, but I ran into this one on a VAX-785
at school.  The default compress was a 16 bit encoding, but uncompress on the
Amiga could only cope with 12 bits.  Result - instant garbage.  (I really
don't remember what all those things mean, but if someone in your group
insists on using compress rather than arc for files destined for the Amiga,
make sure they override the default 16 bit encoding to use a 12 bit encoding
instead.  Better yet, use arc!)

Kent, the man from xanth.