Re: sciibin/usq and .bsq files: Q-Qestions

[voss@i40s19.ira.uka.de (Stefan Voss)]

In article <2nifph$751@sahuarita.math.arizona.edu>, veum@math.arizona.edu (Eric Veum) writes:
|> I seem to have some trouble with the sciibin
|> packages in unpacking comressed files of the 
|> form 
|> 
|> [stuff deleted]
|> 
|> 
|> I of course cut out the header, and then try
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This isn't neccessary. sciibin & Co. are skipping all lines until a 
"FiLeStArTfIlEsTaRt..." is found

|> to run some of the de-archiving programs
|> on the file like sciibin, etc,.... 
|> 
|> 
|> they give me errors like:
|> 
|> [stuff deleted]
|> 
|> Anyway, what am I doing wrong here, and what program will
|> turn these files back into .shk/.bxy files, which is I assume
|> what they are.

You don't do anything wrong. It just seems that the binscii'ed files got
corrupted. Try downloading them again (in binary mode). If unpacking fails 
again you should contact the person who uploaded the files and tell her/him
about your problem. Maybe the files weren't uploaded properly. 

Regards,

Stefan Voss
(voss@ira.uka.de)