Re: SCIIBIN problems

[dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <3apo53$q7k@nntp1.u.washington.edu>,
Ethan Fischer <allanon@u.washington.edu> wrote:
> 
> >I have d/l copy after copy of SCIIBIN and still have been unable to get
> >it to work.  I am on a DG/UX system.  Could this be the problem? I
> >constantly get 'CRC error in header' errors.  The archives are good
> >though because I have unbinsciied them at home on my IIGS. Any suggestions?
> 
> 	I too had this problem (and still do) but found a work around for
> it.  Use the '-c' option to ignore CRC checksum errors.  Also use the '-o'
> option to specify an output file name since it doesn't seem to be able to do
> it on its own.  You can then pretty much ignore the CRC errors that sciibin
> spits out.

I have never seen a CRC error message from SCIIBIN (running on a Sun)
unless there really was something wrong with the file.

If you are getting CRC errors on files which are known to be correct,
it probably means there is something in the source code that needs to
be modified to make it work properly on your machine.

For example, the source code makes several assumptions about the size
of data types (all of which are reasonable).
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David Empson
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