sterling@uwovax.uwo.ca (09/24/90)
I have obtained the files for GNU Plot, but am unable to use them since they need to be 'shelled'. I'm not sure what is required to do this. The files are ASCII text, and the source code is there, but throughout the files are some kind of script commands. What do I need to decode this stuff? I am using an IBM model 50 with MSDOS 3.3. Thank you in advance Sterling. -- Sterling Gunn | "A (person)'s character is (their) fate." 1013_4111@UWOVAX.UWO.CA | Socrates? Dept. of Applied Mathematics | University of Western Ontario | London, Ontario | Canada | ______________________________|
mcoffey@aix.aix.kingston.ibm.com (Michael Coffey) (09/25/90)
In article <7101.26fcbe11@uwovax.uwo.ca>, sterling@uwovax.uwo.ca writes: > Path: aix!ibmps2!uunet!mailrus!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!watserv1!ria !uwovax!sterling > From: sterling@uwovax.uwo.ca > Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc > Subject: unshelling GNU Plot > Message-ID: <7101.26fcbe11@uwovax.uwo.ca> > Date: 23 Sep 90 17:52:16 GMT > Lines: 19 > > I have obtained the files for GNU Plot, but am unable to use them since they > need to be 'shelled'. I'm not sure what is required to do this. The files are > ASCII text, and the source code is there, but throughout the files are some > kind of script commands. What do I need to decode this stuff? I am using > an IBM model 50 with MSDOS 3.3. > > Thank you in advance > Sterling. > > It sounds like you have a shell archeive file. You need a UNIX system with a bourne shell. You execute the archeive file by entering the command: sh filename You could do this on MS-DOS if you can get a bourne or korn shell for that operating system. I know MKS sells a korn shell for MS-DOS, that should do the job for you. Failing that, you could edit the file, deleting the junk at the beginning of each line, and breaking the file into multiple files by hand (not fun, but can be done). ...Mike Michael Coffey: AIX Kernel Development All the ways of a man are clean in VNET: mcoffey@kgnaix his own sight, but the Lord weighs UUCP: uunet!ibmps2!aix!mcoffey the motives. --Proverbs 16:2-- All comments are mine, and do not reflect official IBM positions.
roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) (09/27/90)
mcoffey@aix.aix.kingston.ibm.com (Michael Coffey) writes: > In article <7101.26fcbe11@uwovax.uwo.ca>, sterling@uwovax.uwo.ca writes: > > From: sterling@uwovax.uwo.ca > > Subject: unshelling GNU Plot > > > > I have obtained the files for GNU Plot, but am unable to use them since the > > need to be 'shelled'. I'm not sure what is required to do this. > > > It sounds like you have a shell archeive file. You need a UNIX system > with a bourne shell. You execute the archeive file by entering the > command: sh filename > > You could do this on MS-DOS if you can get a bourne or korn shell for > that operating system. The ms_sh posted to c.b.i.p recently, along with the set of utilities that accompanied it, should do fine at breaking up shell archives. I do this quite often. Possible hangups may be if the sh archive uses chmod to verify that a file has been written. In some cases, the shar will call chmod with octal permissions, and some DOS chmod's only accept symbolic permissions. There may also be conflicts of syntax with 'test'. You'll also need to aquire a version of sed. (I think there's one on SIMTEL) -- Roy M. Silvernail |+| roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu |+| #define opinions ALL_MINE; main(){float x=1;x=x/50;printf("It's only $%.2f, but it's my $%.2f!\n",x,x);} "This is cyberspace." -- Peter da Silva :--: "...and I like it here!" -- me