thughes@cs.warwick.ac.uk (Tom Hughes) (12/05/90)
As someone who is new to this newsgroup, I would like to know
if it is possible to decode Sparc encoded files on an ordinary
Unix system, without Sparc.
I have tried uudecoding such a file and it creates a file of
type 'arc' in my directory, but this is an invalid archive
according to Unix.
Please mail any answers to the address below.
Thank you.
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Tom Hughes thughes@uk.ac.warwick.cs
cstaqdb@uk.ac.warwick.cu
============================================================================ears@surrey.ac.uk (Elec. Eng. Amateur Radio Society) (12/07/90)
I would also like to know this, could the answer please be posted. thanks, DF
guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) (12/15/90)
>I would also like to know this, could the answer please be posted.
Could the question be explained first? What is a "SPARC encoded file"?
The question, as asked, was:
I have tried uudecoding such a file and it creates a file of
type 'arc' in my directory, but this is an invalid archive
according to Unix.
Well, "uudecode" is pretty much the same between UNIXes (although there
are, on occasion, some annoying differences - but they have nothing to
do with SPARC! Besides, they apparently successfully uudecoded the
file).
"arc" refers to, I think, some flavor of PC ARChiving software (called
"ARC"), which is most definitely not related to SPARC in any way, shape,
or form. (I assume that by "a file of type 'arc'" the original poster
meant "a file with '.arc' as its suffix".)
It doesn't come with SunOS on SPARC (or any other Sun) machines, but
versions are, I think, available; try asking in "comp.sources.wanted"
(or some "eunet" equivalent, if it exists).
Or is "Sparc" unrelated to SPARC, as in "the architecture of the
microprocessors used by Sun and various other vendors", and instead some
Acorn-specific term (hence the appearance of the question in
"comp.sys.acorn")?ath@prosys.se (Anders Thulin) (12/15/90)
In article <4848@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes: >Could the question be explained first? What is a "SPARC encoded file"? That should probably be '!Spark'. It's a archiver program, remotely related to ARC, and known only in the Acorn world. -- Anders Thulin ath@prosys.se {uunet,mcsun}!sunic!prosys!ath Telesoft Europe AB, Teknikringen 2B, S-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden