doug@homxc.ATT.COM (D.SULPY) (05/03/89)
I'm a relative newcomer, who's attempting to get files from the moderated Amiga newsgroups. I've followed the examples in the "intro to comp.sys.amiga" posting, but I still have a couple of simple questions. I've tried mailing these questions to Bob Page, but the email bounced. Here goes --- I'm writing the different parts of the files from comp.binaries.amiga to my UNIX account, and running them through sh. I'm cutting off the parts at the top, but I'm not modifying the ends of the files, nor concatinating them. This seems to work ok, and I end up with a number of sequentially numbered files with a .zu extention. The intro posting makes no reference to a .zu extention. Can I assume this refers to something which must first be run through uudecode on the Amiga side, and then zoo (also on the Amiga side) to be able to run properly? If so, I'll order uudecode from the appropriate Fish disk (or use the Amiga Basic version posted a couple of days ago) and I'm in business (I already have ZOO somewhere). Now the REAL stupid question (I hope your tolerence level is high today)... Are the files on comp.sources.amiga simply the uncompiled versions of stuff on comp.binaries.amiga? That is, if I pull ARP (for example) off of .binaries, and have no desire to look at the source code, do I also have to pull something off of .sources as well to enable it to work? My ultimate plan is to be able to get the programs from USENET over to a 3 1/2 disk on my PC here at work, and then cart them home to my Amiga, and use Dos-To-Dos (which I have on order) to transfer them. One last question, for those of you who own Bridgeboards - I already own a Commodore Colt PC clone. The Bridgeboard comes with only 512K. Can I pull chips out of the Colt and put them onto the Bridgeboard to bring it up to 640, or shall I save up another six months and spring for the AT Bridgeboard?
tadguy@cs.odu.edu (Tad Guy) (05/05/89)
[ Well, I'm often ill-tempered, but I'm not a developer ... ] In article <6526@homxc.ATT.COM>, doug@homxc (D.SULPY) writes: >This seems to work ok, and I end up with a number of sequentially >numbered files with a .zu extention. Good. >The intro posting makes no reference to a .zu extention. The intro should be updated, then. >Can I assume this refers to something which must first be run through >uudecode on the Amiga side, and then zoo (also on the Amiga side) to >be able to run properly? This is the most common question I get asked (probably since the archives on xanth are verbatim copies of what Bob posts). The *.zu? files are *parts* of *one* LARGE uuencoded file. Since you already have the files on your UNIX box (as you mentioned), go ahead and use the UNIX cat command to join these files into one LARGE *.zuu file: xanth% ls -1 joe.zu1 joe.zu2 joe.zu3 xanth% cat joe.zu? > tmp Now, since you're still on your UNIX box, use the uudecode you (should) have there to turn tmp into a Zoo file: xanth% uudecode tmp xanth% ls -1 joe.zoo joe.zu1 joe.zu2 joe.zu3 tmp Then, download the zoo file to your Amiga (using some kind of binary protocol, like Zmodem, or Kermit in Image Mode, etc.) If you do your concatenation and uudecoding on your UNIX box, you'll save yourself a lot of download time, since the zoo file is going to be smaller than the uuencoded files. Hope this helps. ...tad
mikes@lakesys.UUCP (Mike Shawaluk) (05/06/89)
In article <8750@xanth.cs.odu.edu> tadguy@cs.odu.edu (Tad Guy) writes: >xanth% cat joe.zu? > tmp > ... >xanth% uudecode tmp Of course, the true UN*X hacker/enthusiast would have combined these two operations into one step via piping, and would have saved themselves the bother of deleting the temporary file later; vis: whatever% cat joe.zu? | uudecode At least I know that this works for the version of uudecode that we have here. Oh, and by the way, in case there's ever a multi-part posting with more than 9 parts (there was one last year, but happily that type of thing hasn't been going on lately), you'd use a command of the form: whatever% cat bob.zu? bob.zu1? | uudecode assuming that there were no more than 19 parts, and the the files were named with .zu1, .zu2, ... .zu9, .zu10, etc. (which is how they were named last time, instead of the slightly more easily sortable .zu01, ...) -- - Mike Shawaluk (mikes@lakesys.lakesys.com OR ...!uunet!marque!lakesys!mikes) "Where were you on the night of August 12?"
tadguy@cs.odu.edu (Tad Guy) (05/11/89)
In article <8750@xanth.cs.odu.edu> tadguy@cs.odu.edu (Tad Guy) writes: >xanth% cat joe.zu? > tmp > ... >xanth% uudecode tmp In article <604@lakesys.UUCP>, mikes@lakesys (Mike Shawaluk) writes: >Of course, the true UN*X hacker/enthusiast would have combined these two >operations into one step via piping... >whatever% cat joe.zu? | uudecode This also works (though it may not be clear to the novice what you're doing). I wanted to clearly show each step of what was happening... ...tad