Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!mcnc!xanth!kent 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 References: <359@louie.udel.EDU> Reply-To: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va. Lines: 12 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.