#FIXOBJ.EXE
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Hey Don, I have aterm witch i have to dearc later and ahost which I dont. The
problem is that I downloaded both with xmodem(all I have). I also downloaded
FIXOBJ.EXE which states that I do not have to chop it. When I load this prgm
(Amigaforum:fixobj) I get a prompt saying Usage : fixobj srcfile destfile I
take this to mean sorcefile destinationfile But I dont know what to do after
this, I tried a few combinations with no success. Are you familier with this
prgm? There are no docs or any kind of instructions that I know of. Got any
Ideas?
C/U/L
Bruno
Bruno,
Fixobj is working as it ought to. Your guess was exactly right, it's
useage is fixobj <inputfile> <output file> so if you have a file that you
downloaded and it was the wrong size to run due to xmodem padding, (let's call
it goodprg.exe) you'd type: fixobj goodprg.exe goodprg
That will read in the file goodprg.exe and strip off the pad bytes at the end
that are a result of xmodem and write out the corrected file as goodprg. You
can use any output filename you wish. When done, you will have 2 files.
Obviously, you can't name the output file the same as the inputfile…that
won't work.
You won't need fixobj for many things any more. It's only for
executable program files…and the vast majority of them are now in ARCed
format. With the use of ARC, you not only save on up/download time
($$$)…they do NOT require the use of FIXOBJ as the archive contains the
proper filesize so that's all that is written to disk…the proper sized file.
Don
Got ya Don, thanks allot.
C/U/L
Bruno