bazyar@chip (Jawaid Bazyar) (02/09/91)
In article <8100@plains.NoDak.edu> swiers@plains.NoDak.edu (Mike Swiers ) writes: >I'll ignore for a moment that he's already said twice that he can't save the files to disk. That aside, I've been doing all my DL'ing from the internet >as ascii (I use the unix ~t (take) from tip on my 2/120). Anyway, I havn't >had _any_ problems at all yet. > >Mike > >P.S. Since the original poster cannot save a copy of what is posted to >comp.binaries, could you perhaps find the article in /usr/spool/news/comp/ >binaries/apple2? Then DL it using your favorite protocol.....? He should be able to pipe it straight into X,Y, or Z modem (assuming two things: rn (newsreader) and sz (Chuck Fosrberg's pd xyzmodem). Type the following at the rn prompt: s|sx This "saves" the message into (piped) the send xmodem progrzm. He will of course absolutely have to have a terminal prog that supports protocol transfers. If he REALLY wants to keep using Snowterm, then the similar command s|cat will do the job- no --more-- prompts in the text. Unix is wonderful, if you know how to use it. -- Jawaid Bazyar | "I'm sure K&R have never heard of Mike." Senior/Computer Engineering | bazyar@cs.uiuc.edu | "That's okay. I'm sure Mike's never heard of K&R". Apple II Forever! | (discussion about Orca/C)