ibmbin-request@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (05/31/90)
After getting your starter kit, you will have (at least) a working
version of uudecode, and a copy of looz.exe. On many UNIX systems the
uudecode program will already be preset, and the zoo archiver may also
be available. Note that the uudecode on some systems (particularly early
releases of SunOS) is broken and will only work in a directory which is
world writable.
Here's how you use the tools in the starter kit. If you have other
tools on a UNIX system, check the man pages for local conventions.
Save a posting from c.b.i.p in a file, for instance zappit.uu. Assume
a one part posting first. Then change the text into a binary file by
using uudecode:
uudecode zappit.uu
This will create zappit.zoo (info on zoo files later). You can list
the contents of the zoo archive by using the looz program:
looz lc zappit
When you want to extract the files from zappit.zoo, you run the looz
extractor, like this:
looz x zappit
You may want to do this in a subdirectory to keep all the parts
together.
That's all there is, if you're looking for more there is any. You now
have all the files from the archive and can start uing the program.
ZOO ARCHIVES
An archive is a file which has one or more files which have been
compressed, and which contains an uncompressed directory. This is not
like a compressed tar or cpio file, because you don't have to uncompress
all the data to see what's in the archive. Many archive formats, such as
zoo, include the ability to have comments on the individual files and on
the archive as a whole.