Re: GSHK 1.1 Problems

[andyb@vpnet.chi.il.us (Andy Brobston)]

In <4ofbuq$kao@gap.cco.caltech.edu> nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates) writes:
>    [Tip: hit return every 70 characters, not 79. Makes it much easier
> to quote.]

Sorry.

>    Works just great here. Are you sure your copy of GSHK is fine?

No. This is the second copy that I've had. The first came installed
on my hard drive, and it wouldn't even run. I don't remember where
I got the copy I have now - I think it might have been on
wuarchive.wustl.edu. Anyway, where did you get *your* copy, since it
doesn't seem to be messed up?

> >I've had a great deal of trouble with this program. It doesn't seem to
> >recognize a lot of the archives that are supposed to be .SHK archives. Of
> >course, the archives could simply be messed up, too. The program has crashed
> >every time I've tried to decompress a .SDK archive. I have no other program
> >which will decompress .SDK's, since ShrinkIt-8 doesn't (as far as I know).
> 
>    Make sure that .SHK archives are downloaded in _binary_ mode at all
> stages. If you're unpacking .BSQ archives on the GS side and those
> aren't recognized, then you need to make sure that the BSQ file
> contains all parts (BSQ files can have multiple parts, and they don't
> care if you unpack parts 1, 3 and 4-- part 2 of the .shk file will be
> empty). Finally, run a disk verification program such as that included
> with ProSEL-8 or -16 to make sure your HD isn't corrupting files as
> you write them.

I always download in binary mode unless I know I'm getting a text file,
so that isn't a problem. I really think that the archives are bad on
the systems where I'm getting them, because the same archives are
bad every time I download them (if an archive doesn't work once, I often
try again). However, if I try to run a bad archive through GSHK, I
really would like for it to tell me that the archive is bad, rather
than crashing or hanging the program so that I have to reboot the
computer.

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Andy Brobston
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