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From: NETOPRWA@NCSUVM.BITNET (Wayne Aiken)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: RE: standard for file transmission
Message-ID: <359NETOPRWA@NCSUVM>
Date: 8 May 88 01:08:46 GMT
Organization: North Carolina State University - Computing Center
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As far as packing method (ARC,ZOO,Compress, etc.) the only one that
I've ever had any problems with has been compress.  (640K IBM AT)
Perhaps I've never gotten the right executable, does anyone have a
12 or 13 bit compress guaranteed to run in at least 512K?

That aside, the other problem, especially with multi-part postings, is
that not all parts consistently make it to all sites, and when they do,
one or more parts have been truncated or otherwise mangled.  It would be
of great help if each uuencoded part had a trailing cut line and signature,
so I can tell if a file has been truncated.  The new uuencode for the PC by
Richard Marks (great job, Richard!) correctly skips the cut lines, and can
also extract directly from shar files.

One last thing....one of the great advantages of using ARC and ZOO files
is that they maintain an internal CRC value for each file.  Recently,
someone posted a uuencoded EXE file which I had to download twice before I
got it to work, and I'm still not 100% positive that there is not some garbled
spot hidden somewhere in that binary.  If the packing method doesn't
include a CRC, then it really should be calculated and included as part
of the header or documentation, so I can verify that the file is OK.


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