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Newsgroups: comp.sources.misc,comp.sources.d
From: kent@sparky.imd.sterling.com (Kent Landfield)
Subject: v27INF7: dmake_post - Trouble posting dmake version 3.8
Message-ID: <1992Jan30.052842.13730@sparky.imd.sterling.com>
X-Md4-Signature: 1ace99fbc528f7a500c5f6e793402987
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1992 05:28:42 GMT
Approved: kent@sparky.imd.sterling.com
Submitted-by: kent@sparky.imd.sterling.com (Kent Landfield)
Posting-number: Volume 27, Info 7
Archive-name: dmake_post
It *seems* that I have run into an NNTP bug/limitation with the latest posting
of dmake...
I have been using MD4 article verification for quite a while now. Although
others have told me that it has alerted them when bad copies were received, I
have not personally encountered a problem. Today I finished posting dmake
version 3.8 to c.s.misc and went to rkive it on uunet when invalid MD4
checksums presented themselves to me... This was strange since the copy on
my system was archived with no problems. I decided to repost a single part
in hopes that it would either make it the second time or would point me to
the problem. It seems to have done the latter... :-( There is an apparent
assumption made in the NNTP server that lines will not exceed 512 bytes
in length. At least that is where the problem is on each of the damaged
parts...
Dmake has lines in few of the shars that exceed 512 characters in length...
So how do we fix the problem ? I normally would just post a patch but the
patch would have lines > 512 and the patch would go through NNTP and .....
For those of you with ftp access, I have placed good copies on ftp.uu.net
in the directory ~/comp.sources.misc/volume27/dmake. Also, from part00:
dmake is available via anonymous ftp from watmsg.uwaterloo.ca
(129.97.141.9) as:
pub/dmake/dmake38.tar.Z - compressed tar archive
pub/dmake/dmake38.zoo - zoo archive
pub/dmake/dmake38-msdos-exe.zoo - MSDOS executable zoo archive
pub/dmake/dmake38-msdos-exe.zip - MSDOS executable zip archive
pub/dmake/dmake38.shar01 - xx part shar archive
... (get all parts)
pub/dmake/dmake38.sharxx
and comes in several archive formats. Choose the one that best
suits your needs.
For those sites without ftp access, send electronic mail to uunet!netlib
(netlib@uunet.uu.net) with only the following as the body of the message:
send volume27/dmake/part11 from comp.sources.misc
send volume27/dmake/part34 from comp.sources.misc
send volume27/dmake/part35 from comp.sources.misc
send volume27/dmake/part36 from comp.sources.misc
The good parts will be returned to you via email.
Sorry for the problems... If my quick assumptions about NNTP are incorrect
please let me know so that I can spend some time and track the problem down
so it doesn't happen again. Another thing to add to the checklist...
-Kent+