Ta - I think they used Reflection's FTP client.

Post #172,305 by Meerkat 9/1/04 10:12:31 PM Reply	Ta - I think they used Reflection's FTP client. I'm guessing it doesn't have an 'Auto' function. Anyway on the plus side, someone (No, not me) has now learnt (the hard way) about the difference between bin and text FTP. Two out of three people wonder where the other one is.
Post #172,313 by broomberg 9/1/04 11:03:13 PM Reply	Might be, not sure. If you are on Dos/Windows systems, and you transfer something froma Unix system, this means that it is supposed to put a CR before every LF. So do the reverse. Write a program that looks for sequences of CR/LF, and remove the CR. Not sure what else it does, if anything.
Post #172,315 by deSitter 9/1/04 11:04:04 PM Reply	Senses EOF Plus you can't just assume 0D 0A is a line feed in binary file. -drl
Post #172,341 by Meerkat 9/2/04 12:27:40 AM Reply	That's it exactly. There's no way of telling which OD OA's shouldn't be like that. Hmmm... well it was a .Z file. So I wrote something that said Strip off the superflous character. Can we uncompress the file past that point now? If so, tops. If not, put it back, look for the next one. But I'm sure by the time I wrote that the tape backup would have arrived. Two out of three people wonder where the other one is.
Post #172,351 by drewk 9/2/04 2:01:24 AM Reply	($your_script)! As in factorial. You'd have to try every possible combination of removing characters. Which is the number of potentially bad characters factorial. (Or is it 2 to the power of ... ) === Implicitly condoning stupidity since 2001.
Post #172,353 by Meerkat 9/2/04 2:21:44 AM Reply	Not sure it'd need every possible combination But I'm unsure of how much error checking uncompress done when uncompressing. Frinstance, when I ran uncompress on the corrupted file, it gave me the first 70 characters or so, quite correctly, until it returned a 'file corrupted' messages. Which lead me to think uncompress knows when it's bad, so I could make it good, and let it continue on to the next error. I wasn't going use this woolly thinking as the means to turn my script into reality, however! :) Two out of three people wonder where the other one is.

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