Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!agate!ig!uwmcsd1!leah!itsgw!batcomputer!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!bcsaic!lbaum From: lbaum@bcsaic.UUCP (Larry Baum) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Two Questions Message-ID: <6334@bcsaic.UUCP> Date: 6 Jul 88 16:11:13 GMT References: <7299@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> Reply-To: lbaum@bcsaic.UUCP (Larry Baum) Organization: Boeing Computer Services AI Center, Seattle Lines: 17 In article <7299@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov} dlv059@Mipl3.JPL.Nasa.Gov writes: }1) I'm having trouble combining the multi-part files that come from }comp.binaries.mac. Specifically, what happens is this: I strip the headers }off each part, down to and including the line with 3 hyphens on it. I then }append the files on the host machine (VAX/VMS) and upload them with Kermit & }Versaterm to the Mac. When I run BinHex 4.0 on them they get all the way }through the file, then I get a checksum error. Does anybody know what I'm }doing wrong? This only happens on multi-part files; I have no problems with }single-part files. } I think you also need to get rid of the extraneous characters at the end of each part; i.e. you need to check that where two parts join that there are no blank lines or lines with a few hyphens or lines that say "end of part 1" or the like. Also don't leave a blank line at the start of the next part. In other words when you are done appending it should be impossible to detect where the two parts met. LSB