[Coco] trouble with AR

[Aaron Wolfe]

fixar does indeed fix the files that I've found trouble with.  thanks!


On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 5:51 AM, Bob Devries <devries.bob at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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