[Coco] trouble with AR

[gene heskett]

On Sunday, January 16, 2011 07:09:56 am Aaron Wolfe did opine:

> 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.
> 
> Ok, I will look at this solution now.  In the utilities directory,
> reminder.ar, scribe40src.ar, uptime.ar and verdisk.ar all give the
> same errors.  screen.ar gives a slightly different one.
> 
There is now a fixed-uptime.ar on my web page.  Unforch I don't have copies 
of the other 3 quoted above.

For uptime to be functional, put an 'uptime -' in your startup file, this 
sets the time into /dd/sys/uptime for later use.

> > 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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