jaa@codas.att.com (James Anderson) (12/17/88)
In article <6723@netnews.upenn.edu>, greenber@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Brian Greenberg) writes: > Someone please humor me, while I display my ignorance. > > How do I download the files in comp.binaries.ibm.pc and then put them > into an executable form? I'm new at this, and I don't want to waste > my time downloading if I can't run the programs! Well more than one person asked for this, and email to Brian bounced. Save the article(s) into a file(s). If you are on a Unix(r) system use the combine script below on the file(s) (Thanks to the moderator for it it has long since been yanked from the original article in which it was posted). -----------cut here for combine script ------------------------ #! /bin/sh cat $* | sed '/^END/,/^BEGIN/d'| uudecode -----------END COMBINE ---------------------------------------- If you aren't running on a Unix(r) system or you dont have uudecode, combine the files together and hand edit them to remove header and trailer junk. You will need uudecode on the PC in this case. Now you either have a .com, .exe, .arc, .zoo or a big text file. Download this to your PC using one of the available BINARY protocols available. If the file is a .com or .exe your all set, if the file is a .arc you will need an un-archiver (SEA ARC, PKware PKXARC, etc), if the file is a .zoo you will need a copy of ZOO to un-zoo it. If you have a large text file you have to feed it to uudecode to produce one of the above file types. (Unix(r) is a registered trademark of AT&T, and I'm sure some of the other names are copyright or trademark of someone) James Anderson Working for but not employed by AT&T jaa@codas.att.com Diskclaimer My opinions only.