| Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
| Notice: | Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2 |
| Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5378 |
| Total number of notes: | 38326 |
Is there anybody reading consistently the AMIGA_USENET Notes
?????????????????????
I just saw that some of the notes have code in binary.
quetion:
How do you converted to binary ????
There is something mentioned about Shell
Any body doing this ??? There is no reason of every
body to do the same thing.
...george...
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| 1065.1 | SHAR and UUDECODE AGAIN!!! | MVCAD3::BAEDER | Tue Jan 12 1988 19:06 | 30 | |
yes, I read them, but some things, if not of interest to me, I don't
bother to mention.....as for the methods of transmitting them...
Usent things are grouped into SHAR file (Shell ARchives)..I think
we covered this before, but.....
Shar files can be unpacked by just passing them to the Shell (ie
command interpreter...there is even a beast call DAR...DCL ARchive
that unpacks using DCL...;-)
But the good news for all of us is the Dave W. wrote a simple extension
to the SHAR program to unpack these suckers into individual files...
(see mvcad3::user0:[amiga.tools] for source and exe of basic vms
utilities to deal with these files)
Now to change the binary files to ASCII (or other char representations
depending on machine)...use UUENCODE/UUDECODE...the idea here is
to translate 3 bytes of binary to 4 characters (24 bits binary to
4-6 bit character representations)
So, its easy to do, and in general, I do put all of the programs
(Source and binary groups) onto MVCAD3::user0:[amiga.usenet]
Feel free to access, but please be considerate during the day...if
possible use the spool (FTSV) program to do it batch overnite, but
some access during the day ok.
Hope this answers it...
scott.
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| 1065.2 | DICKNS::MACDONALD | WA1OMM Listening 224.28 | Tue Jan 12 1988 19:52 | 7 | |
Capture them in an ascii file [filename.UUE].
Edit out the header garbage.
UUDECODE filename.UUE.
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| 1065.3 | Calling AMIGA usenet subscribers ... | PUERTO::ALVAREZ | Miguel,from sunny Puerto Rico | Mon Mar 21 1988 11:00 | 8 |
Our system was down during the weekend, and I'm sure I must
have lost some of the usenet postings sent. If you received
comp.sys.amiga, binaries or source during the weekend, could you
please just forward it to PUERTO::ALVAREZ ??
Thanks.
Miguel A. Alvarez
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| 1065.4 | DICKNS::MACDONALD | WA1OMM Listening 52.525 | Mon Mar 21 1988 12:00 | 1 | |
No deliveries this weekend. | |||||
| 1065.5 | usenet uses Nmail | MVCAD3::BAEDER | D. Scott DTN 237-2961 SHR1-3/E19 | Mon Mar 21 1988 15:21 | 5 |
in anycase, since it uses Nmail, it should store, and forward after
system comes up.
scott.
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