[comp.binaries.ibm.pc] numerical conversion

gary@hpbbrd.HP.COM (Gary Tuosto) (03/01/88)

This is a little tool I use for conversions between numerical
systems: hex, decimal, dual and binary. Hope it's of any use
for all of you out there in netland. Just uudecode it and
pkxarc it and you will get the executable numconv.exe.

This is my first posting (after all my taking I thought it 
was time to give) so please be tolerant if I've done some-
thing wrong :-)

			       Gary

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davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr) (03/04/88)

  I would like to suggest that people use ARC compatible format for
postings to this group, rather than PKARC. There are many of us out here
who are on large UNIX computers who don't have PKARC at our fingertips,
but do have ARC.

  When a binary posting come in, if it is in ARC format I can do the
uudecode and unarc the doc files. Then I can decide if the program does
something worth moving to the DOS world. I suspect that I am not the
only one who moves thins to the DOS world via serial phone lines. I like
to do some screening here.

  The reason for this group is to share information.  If someone is
generous enough to invest their time in posting something, I'm grateful. 
If anyone is that public spirited, perhaps this explanation of the
reasons why ARC format is more useful will encourage a change in format. 
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
  {uunet | philabs | seismo}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen
"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me

billb@amcad.UUCP (Bill Burton) (03/12/88)

In article <9782@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> davidsen@kbsvax.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr) writes:
>
>  I would like to suggest that people use ARC compatible format for
>postings to this group, rather than PKARC. There are many of us out here
>who are on large UNIX computers who don't have PKARC at our fingertips,
>but do have ARC.
Good idea.  PKARC has options that allow you to disable the incompatible
compression format.  It's also *much* faster than ARC too. 

To create a SEA ARC compatible archive:
	PKARC -oc a arcname *.*
This will create a file ARCNAME.ARC using all the files in the current
directory.  This assumes that PKARC.COM is located in your path. 

There have been changes to a version of SEA ARC to make it compatible
with PKARC's newer compression scheme.  Unfortunately, these changes
haven't been verified on many machines.  Nor to my knowledge is such a
version of ARC widely available.  It would be nice if someone would be
able to coordinate the verification of one of the PKARC compatible ARC
programs and post patches as it seems appropriate.

>-- 
>	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
>  {uunet | philabs | seismo}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen
>"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me

-Bill

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