840445m@aucs.uucp (Alan McKay) (11/01/89)
I have some files that I got from the net. I ran 'sh' on them and it created files with a '.zuu' extension. What do I do with the 'zuu' files? I tried to run 'zoo' on them but it does not work. -- + Alan W. McKay + VOICE: (902) 542-1565 + + Acadia University + "Courage my friend, it is not yet too late + + WOLFVILLE, N.S. + to make the world a better place." + + 840445m@AcadiaU.CA + - Tommy Douglas +
gue@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (George M.B. Chung) (11/02/89)
In article <1989Oct31.230856.12165@aucs.uucp> 840445m@aucs.UUCP (Alan McKay) writes: >I have some files that I got from the net. I ran 'sh' on them and it >created files with a '.zuu' extension. What do I do with the 'zuu' >files? I tried to run 'zoo' on them but it does not work. >-- >+ Alan W. McKay + VOICE: (902) 542-1565 + >+ Acadia University + "Courage my friend, it is not yet too late + >+ WOLFVILLE, N.S. + to make the world a better place." + >+ 840445m@AcadiaU.CA + - Tommy Douglas + The file with the zuu extension means that it is a zoo file that has been uuencoded. (z for zoo and uu for uuencoded) So just do a uudecode filename.zuu It will produce a filename.zoo file. Then just use zoo on the filename.zoo file. George Chung gue@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
jac@muslix.llnl.gov (James Crotinger) (11/02/89)
In article <1989Oct31.230856.12165@aucs.uucp> 840445m@aucs.UUCP (Alan McKay) writes: >I have some files that I got from the net. I ran 'sh' on them and it >created files with a '.zuu' extension. What do I do with the 'zuu' >files? I tried to run 'zoo' on them but it does not work. > Those are UUEncoded zoo files, if they're the ones I sent Bob. I didn't create the shar files, Bob did. I just UUEncoded the zoo files, split them, *and* put directions at the top as to what to do with the zaa, zab, ..., and zuu files. I think my instructions were left out of the shar file. (tho' if you'd have looked at the file you'd have figured out what else to do with it). >-- >+ Alan W. McKay + VOICE: (902) 542-1565 + Jim
page%swap@Sun.COM (Bob Page) (11/02/89)
jac@muslix.UUCP (James Crotinger) wrote: >I didn't create the shar files, Bob did. I just UUEncoded the zoo files, >split them, *and* put directions at the top as to what to do with Whenever I get a submission, I put the pieces together and then decompose it into its individual files, just like it should be on the user's disk. Then I zoo it back together and do all the other magic. The reason I go though this seemingly useless task is it keeps everything in the same format ... same implementation of ZOO, uuencode, split, shar, etc. Keeping everything in the same format saves everyone a lot of headaches. I'm pretty liberal about what format I'll accept things in, because I always go though this tear-down/build-up process anyway. In the future (coming real soon now) I'm going to post guidelines for submitting binaries and sources -- in effect, I'm going to give you the checklist and tools to do what I do. When you submit a posting to me with the statement "This conforms to the standard comp.binaries.amiga format" I'll just send it out immediately w/o any pre-processing. Anyway, I haven't put that together yet; I want to post all this other stuff first. Oh -- if you submit anything in WARP or ZIP or some other strange format (other than shar, zoo, arc or tar), I'll probably return it, as I don't have the means to unpack it, without some hassle. This is why Empire hasn't been posted yet. The 'intro to comp.sys.amiga' posting (just posted, by the way) explains how to unpack comp.binaries.amiga postings. ..bob
shah1@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (shah.jahan) (11/03/89)
> I have some files that I got from the net. I ran 'sh' on them and it > created files with a '.zuu' extension. What do I do with the 'zuu' > files? I tried to run 'zoo' on them but it does not work. > > -- > + Alan W. McKay + VOICE: (902) 542-1565 + I have the same problem. I do not know what to do with *.zuu files. Will somebody post the answer or e-mail. Shah Jahan AT&T Bell Labs Holmdel, NJ
tadguy@cs.odu.edu (Tad Guy) (11/03/89)
In article <5446@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> shah1@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (shah.jahan) writes: > What do I do with the 'zuu' files? I tried to run 'zoo' on them > but it does not work. I have the same problem. I do not know what to do with *.zuu files. This is covered in the monthly(?) posting ``Introduction to comp.sys.amiga''. If you haven't read this posting, do so. [RTFI] ...tad In article <8529@microsoft.UUCP>, Edwin Hoogerbeets <w-edwinh@microsoft.UUCP> writes: > From: page@Sun.COM (Bob Page) > > Every comp.binaries.amiga submission is archived with the ZOO archive > program ... > > Because Usenet data paths are not 8-bit, these archives must be > encoded to "regular ASCII" which is 7-bit. The encoding is done with > a program called 'uuencode'. ... > > 3. Convert the .zuu file to a .zoo file with the 'uudecode' program. ...
tomb@hplsla.HP.COM (Tom Bruhns) (11/04/89)
shah1@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (shah.jahan) writes: >> I have some files that I got from the net. I ran 'sh' on them and it >> created files with a '.zuu' extension. What do I do with the 'zuu' >> files? I tried to run 'zoo' on them but it does not work. >> >> -- >> + Alan W. McKay + VOICE: (902) 542-1565 + >I have the same problem. I do not know what to do with *.zuu files. >Will somebody post the answer or e-mail. uudecode the .zuu files. zoo the resulting .zoo files.
brian@jtsv16.UUCP (Brian A. Jarvis) (11/06/89)
In article <5446@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> shah1@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (shah.jahan) writes: >> I have some files that I got from the net. I ran 'sh' on them and it >> created files with a '.zuu' extension. What do I do with the 'zuu' >> files? I tried to run 'zoo' on them but it does not work. Nothing to it. The .zuu files are zoo file which have been uuencoded for transmission as ASCII text (eg. mail, USENET, etc.). To decode and use these, first use 'uudecode' to change the ASCII .zuu file into a binary. The binary should be between 30 and 45% smaller. Then use zoo to extract files from the zoo archive binary. I suppose if you don't have uuencode/uudecode, then I could mail it to you, but it would be in uuencoded form so that it could be mailed and therefore would be of minimal use. B{) The programs are available PD at a great number of locations; your friends probably have copies if you don't. Brian -- Brian A. Jarvis, J.T.S. Computer Systems, brian@jtsv16.jts.com, Downsview, Ontario ...jtsv16!brian Canada M3H 5T5 (416) 665-8910 History is all too frequently the study of the worst case scenario.