presley@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Matthew Presley) (09/14/90)
To the person wondering about compression and uuencoding here is a brief synopsis. Uuencoding changes a file from binary to text. Uudecoding changes a uucoded file back to binary form. This is used to send files through mail servers. Thus, if you have a filename ending in uu, then you should uudecode it. e.g. foo.Zuu foo.zuu foo.uu foo.lzhuu foo.lhwuu Once decoded the file will most likely be a binary compressed file. The too most popular compression formats for the amiga seem to be zoo and lharc. A zoo file has the form foo.zoo A lharc file has the form foo.lzh You should use zoo to extract the zoo file and lharc to extract the lharc files. Other compression schemes are: arc compress lhwarp warp zip pak There are programs for each of these compression schemes There are suffixes for each scheme. If you need any of these programs just drop me an email. They are all public domain. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Matthew Presley (UCLA CS Grad. Student) & (JPL CS dude) Internet (presley@cs.ucla.edu) or (matt@sapphire.jpl.nasa.gov) "Twisted yellow puppies play loudly broken flutes..."
monsoor@csusac.csus.edu (Matt Monsoor) (09/14/90)
Also if you have files like the following:
filename.zuu1
filename.zuu2
filename.zuu3
On the Amiga you want to to to the join command:
join filename.zuu1 filename.zuu2 filename.zuu3 as filename.zuu
And on a unix system you want to do the cat command:
cat filename.zuu1 filename.zuu2 filename.zuu3 > filename.zuu
Before you UUDecode them. :-)
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Before joining (concatenating) files, before decoding files, BE SURE TO STRIP USELESS MAIL HEADER GARBAGE! This will be at the start of each file (if at all). -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Matthew Presley (UCLA CS Grad. Student) & (JPL CS dude) Internet (presley@cs.ucla.edu) or (matt@sapphire.jpl.nasa.gov) "Twisted yellow puppies play loudly broken flutes..."
sjk@ut-emx (bob) (09/15/90)
> Before joining (concatenating) files, > before decoding files, > BE SURE TO STRIP USELESS MAIL HEADER GARBAGE! > This will be at the start of each file (if at all). > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Matthew Presley (UCLA CS Grad. Student) & (JPL CS dude) > Internet (presley@cs.ucla.edu) or (matt@sapphire.jpl.nasa.gov) > "Twisted yellow puppies play loudly broken flutes..." He says with a .signature tacked onto the end of his post. Look out and strip those, too. Scot "Bob" Kleinman sjk@astro.as.utexas.edu sjk@emx.utexas.edu No .sig here!