gpvos@cs.vu.nl (Gerben 'P' Vos) (01/29/91)
Hi,
i have posted the programs UUDecode, UUEncode, Xarc and Arc for the
Beeb & Elk to eunet.micro.acorn. The UU* programs are a quick hack by me,
and are more or less dumb & straight conversions of the Unix(TM) commands.
Arc and Xarc are written by Bart Bruns of the Netherlands.
If you don't have eunet.micro.acorn (because you live in Australia, for
example), you may mail me and i'll try to send the whole batch (5 articles)
to you by mail. Have a little patience, however; i'm a human, not a
mail server.
The following two paragraphs are intended for use on a future binaries
group:
I propose the following standard for submitting files for Acorn 6502-based
machines: put them together using *Arc, then encode them using *UUEncode.
If there are files whose load- and execution addresses must be restored to the
original addresses (Arc doesn't do this), include a file "ExecMe" in the
archive, which sets them.
Decoding can be done with *UUDecode and *Xarc, and *EXEC ExecMe if necessary.
Please note that Arc has a bug, which manifests itself in some large files.
This bug causes some bytes at the end of the file to be lost when Xarc-ed,
typically between 10 and 20. A temporary solution is to put some redundant
extra bytes at the end of the file which gets truncated, before Arc-ing it.
Gerben Vos, gpvos@cs.vu.nl