iwm@ic.ac.uk (Ian Moor) (07/04/89)
I have a problem with long binaries that are split up before posting. The difficulty is getting them together in the right order! The reason for this is the convoluted route I use to transfer files: Unix : Unshar | Kermit Mac | MCopy MS-Dos | DOS-2-DOS Amiga : uudecode & zoo Why such a long route ? The MSDOS machine is far away in a cold terminal room and using kermit on it is so slooow, but it can read mac discs. Anyway, kermit, mcopy , dos-2-dos and msdos all have their ideas about legal file names and what to do if two names clash. Thus long_name_indeed.zu2 might become longxnam.ex0 (or similar). It would be nice if there was some kind of sequencing in the uuencoded file perhaps as a comment line or an extra command for uudecode to check.
new@udel.EDU (Darren New) (07/04/89)
You may want to consider doing what I do, which is to download the entire posting, move it through all the intermediaries (sp?) and then unshar, join, uudecode, ... everything right on the Amiga. Works fine if you have either a hard drive or enuf memory. Let me know if you want a really nice version of unshar that will handle concatenated postings and everything. -- Darren
tadguy@cs.odu.edu (Tad Guy) (07/04/89)
In article <IWM.89Jul3204000@amvax5.ic.ac.uk> iwm@ic.ac.uk (Ian Moor) writes: I have a problem with long binaries that are split up before posting. The reason for this is the convoluted route I use to transfer files: Unix : Unshar | Kermit Mac | MCopy MS-Dos | DOS-2-DOS Amiga : uudecode & zoo Do the uudecode and zoo on the UNIX host and just transfer the ONE .zoo file along this path. Not only do you now only have one file to deal with instead of many, but it's a lot smaller, too. Your UNIX host should already have uudecode, and you can get the UNIX version of Zoo via anonymous ftp from xanth.cs.odu.edu (/pub/zoo-2.01/). All this depends on MCopy and DOS-2-DOS being able to copy *binary* files without translation (Kermit can do this). If MCopy or DOS-2-DOS insists on translating newlines and such, you should probably find a better method of downloading these programs (or find utilities that don't do gratuitous translations)... :-( ...tad
page%swap@Sun.COM (Bob Page) (07/06/89)
iwm@ic.ac.uk (Ian Moor) wrote: >It would be nice if there was some kind of sequencing in the uuencoded file >perhaps as a comment line or an extra command for uudecode to check. Yes, you're right, it would be nice. I have little hope for uuXcode, but the real-soon-now release of btoa is supposed to do just that. If it does all the other things it's rumored to do, I'll consider switching the encode format. ..bob
jbh@mibte.UUCP (James Harvey) (07/07/89)
In article <18981@louie.udel.EDU>, new@udel.EDU (Darren New) writes: > You may want to consider doing what I do, which is to download the entire > posting, move it through all the intermediaries (sp?) and then unshar, join, > uudecode, ... everything right on the Amiga. Works fine if you have either > a hard drive or enuf memory. Let me know if you want a really nice > version of unshar that will handle concatenated postings and everything. > -- Darren I do all the steps on the UNIX machine, then Zoo up the entire package into an MS-DOS acceptable file name, download the Zoo on the IBM (bridgeboard or machine at work), Dos-2-Dos into Amiga and extract the Zoo. -- Jim Harvey | "Ask not for whom the bell Michigan Bell Telephone | tolls and you will only pay 29777 Telegraph | Station-to-Station rates." Southfield, Mich. 48034 | ulysses!gamma!mibte!jbh
monty@sagpd1.UUCP (Monty Saine) (07/07/89)
In article <18981@louie.udel.EDU> new@udel.EDU (Darren New) writes: >You may want to consider doing what I do, which is to download the entire >posting, move it through all the intermediaries (sp?) and then unshar, join, >uudecode, ... everything right on the Amiga. Works fine if you have either >a hard drive or enuf memory. Let me know if you want a really nice >version of unshar that will handle concatenated postings and everything. > -- Darren I for one would like to see a more intelligent unshar program. Does yours skip the UUCP header stuff? if so please e-mail me a copy. Thanks in advance, Monty Saine