[Coco] trouble with AR

[Bob Devries]

Guys,

please remember that many of the files were uploaded with XMODEM file 
transfers. As such they are padded to a 128 byte boundary with CTRL-X. If 
you remove those, the files are generally ok. There's even a util that does 
just that. I think it's called FIXAR.

Also, be careful of EOL translations; CR to CRLF etc.

Regards, Bob Devries.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Aaron Wolfe" <aawolfe at gmail.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2011 8:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] trouble with AR


Thanks, I was interested in what that does exactly :)  Unfortunately
that was just an example, I have the same trouble with lots of files
from RTSI.  Could it be that they are actually all corrupt?

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 5:14 AM, Willard Goosey <goosey at virgo.sdc.org> 
wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 04:15:38AM -0500, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
>
>> For instance, the file 
>> ftp://www.rtsi.com/OS9/OS9_6X09/UTILITIES/uptime.ar
>
> This file seems to be corrupt. I couldn't do much with it either. I
> could only get the first file to extract, and that resulted in an
> executable with a bad CRC.
>
> Then I got mad at it, and used Linux emacs to delete the first file
> from the archive. AR2 could handle the rest.
>
> With the source intact, it was easy to make a new executable. Then I
> repackaged everything up as http://www.sdc.org/~goosey/os9/uptime.lzh
>
> I'll upload the new archive to rtsi later. Now it is time to go do
> dishes.
>
> Willard
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