Michael_Dennis_Evenson@cup.portal.com (03/31/89)
First I would like to thank the donor for the MIN2DOS upload, But I'm
having trouble unwrapping it into a PKXARC compatible file. Where does
one obtain the 'sh' program mentioned in the line that says to:
'sh file'?
I tried splitting the file apart with Wordstar and managed to get the UNPACK$$
program to compile and run, but the .arc file produced has CRC errors.
HELP!
Mikeswh@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (Steve Harrold) (04/03/89)
Re: MIN2DOS unwrapping problem The MIN2DOS package I recently uploaded was "shar"ed using a Unix system, and I was assuming that recipients of it would also be running on a Unix system. If this is not the case, I apologize. Here's some more detailed instructions: Under Unix, execute the command: sh file where "file" is the name you gave to the file you created to hold the complete package. The "sh" is simply the Bourne shell which will understand how to unwrap the package (the package is just a Bourne shell script) and create for you a binary file named "min2dos.arc". If you are doing the unwrapping in a non-Unix environment, then edit the package to create a file that begins with the line that says: begin 664 min2dos.arc and ends with the line that says: end There will be a completely blank line before the "end" line. The file will contain exactly 1092 lines of ascii text. Take this file and run it through the "uudecode" program, if you have it, or else use the "unpack$$" program whose source was supplied with the package. The result will also be a binary file named "min2dos.arc". In either situation, you must then use a BINARY file transfer protocol to download it to your MSDOS PC; I can't stress this enough as this seems to be the biggest source of error of casual users of file transfer facilities. After the download, the "min2dos.arc" file should be exactly 49,002 bytes in length. You can use ANY of the ARC-compatible de-archivers (PKXARC, ARCE, ARC) to extract the files (for those in the know, there are no "squashed" files in the archive). If you have further problems please let me know. -- --------------------- Steve Harrold swh@hpsmtc1.hp.com ...hplabs!hpsmtc1!swh HPG200/11 (408) 447-5580 ---------------------
swh@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (Steve Harrold) (04/03/89)
Re: MIN2DOS unwrapping An additional thought about unwrapping the MIN2DOS package. When doing any editing of the package, please be sure that your editor or word processor is running in pure ascii mode. For Wordstar users, this means you must open the file in "non-document" mode.
pshen@atrp.media.mit.edu (Paul Shen) (04/05/89)
In article <11680005@hpsmtc1.HP.COM> swh@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (Steve Harrold) writes: >Re: MIN2DOS unwrapping problem > >The MIN2DOS package I recently uploaded was "shar"ed using a Unix system, >and I was assuming that recipients of it would also be running on a Unix >system. If this is not the case, I apologize. Here's some more detailed > ....... Acturally, 'shar' and 'uudecode' have been ported to MSDOS. In general, they are pd. They can be found in BBS's. +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Email: pshen@atrp.media.mit.edu | | | Telephone: (617) 253-0370 | Paul Shen | | Address: MIT, E15-384C, Cambridge, Ma 02139 | |
hall@cod.NOSC.MIL (Robert R. Hall) (04/06/89)
In article <3691@mit-amt>, pshen@atrp.media.mit.edu (Paul Shen) writes: > In article <11680005@hpsmtc1.HP.COM> swh@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (Steve Harrold) writes: > >Re: MIN2DOS unwrapping problem > > > >The MIN2DOS package I recently uploaded was "shar"ed using a Unix system, > >and I was assuming that recipients of it would also be running on a Unix > >system. If this is not the case, I apologize. Here's some more detailed > > ....... > Acturally, 'shar' and 'uudecode' have been ported to MSDOS. In general, > they are pd. They can be found in BBS's. > I kermit the news article into Minix and did the sh min2dos It produced a usuable file, the problems I had was the unpack procedure place a blank as the leading character to the file name which I corrected with a mv ?min2dos.arc min2dos.arc Also the word and line count did not match the given numbers but the total bytes size did so I ignored them. After doing doswrite to move the file to my DOS partition PKXARC accepted the file and extracted all file without any error messages I also tried the Minix command uudecode min2dos which went faster and as far as I can tell proceduced the same archive file and without the leading blank in the file name.