Re: DIS .vt files

In article <2mj...@srvr1.engin.umich.edu>, Matt Messina <mes...@umich.edu> writes:
|> In article <2miaof$ek...@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> 
|> C.M.G. Lee, 93c...@eng.cam.ac.uk writes:
|> > Hi!  I seem to have a problem uudecoding those .vt files;
|> > It always says "Short file" and the resulting animation terminates
|> > abruptly, leaving me with weird characters.  Anyone know what's wrong?
|> 
|> This may be because you're losing space characters at the end of lines.
|> Spaces at the end of lines carry information just like any other character.
|> Are you saving the post or cutting and pasting the uuencoded part?  If the
|> latter, try saving.  If the former, you'll have to find a better newsreader.

I've seen this problem caused by people overwriting their uuencoded WHILE they
are decoding it.  An illustration:

Take fishy2.vt for example.  Notice the first line of the uuencode section:
begin 600 fishy2.vt

This line causes uudecode to make a file with mode 600 (octal) called fishy2.vt.
The problem is, if you call the uuencoded file fishy2.vt, then try
"uudecode fishy2.vt", the decode process will overwrite the input file.  This
always causes a "short file" error.  Try saving the uuencoded file fishy2.vt.uu
then uudecode fishy2.vt.uu to produce fishy2.vt.

And now that I'm here:  someone a while back posted a C program that
does the same thing as cat (sorry, can't find the original post to give
credit).  Anyway, for those of you who want to slow down the animation,
you can use the following modified version.  Just set DELAY to a suitable
number to slow down the animation.  1000 works best on this computer, but
change it to suit your taste.


#define DELAY 1000

#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
   int x;

   while (!feof(stdin))
   {
       putchar(getchar());
       for(x=0; x<=DELAY;x++);
   }
}

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