woody@udcf.glasgow.ac.uk (Ian Woodrow) (05/08/91)
HELP I am new to the amiga newsgroups. Can someone tell me how to unpack the binaries that are available on the groups ? I've pulled some down (in 4 parts) and ran them thru 'sh' here on my unix workstation. NOW what ? Presumably I need some sort of un- packing tool --- WHAT is used for unpacking the amiga code and WHERE CAN I GET THIS TOOL ? ALSO; with the prog being in 4 parts, I take it I should concatenate them before running them through this unpacker, whatever it may be. Is this the correct newsgroup for questions like this or is there another dealing with HELP requests ? Cheers, -- W@@DY_______________________________________________________________________ /Ian Woodrow, Computing Service, Uni of Glasgow, GLASGOW G12 8QQ, Scotland \ * <Dog 'n' Bone: 041-330-4800 | e-mail: woody@udcf.gla.ac.uk> * \__________________________________________________________________________/
johnhlee@CS.Cornell.EDU (John H. Lee) (05/09/91)
In article <1991May8.093951.22883@udcf.glasgow.ac.uk> woody@udcf.glasgow.ac.uk (Ian Woodrow) writes: >Can someone tell me how to unpack the binaries that are available on the >groups ? I've pulled some down (in 4 parts) and ran them thru 'sh' here >on my unix workstation. NOW what ? Presumably I need some sort of un- >packing tool --- WHAT is used for unpacking the amiga code and WHERE CAN >I GET THIS TOOL ? ALSO; with the prog being in 4 parts, I take it I >should concatenate them before running them through this unpacker, whatever >it may be. > >Is this the correct newsgroup for questions like this or is there another >dealing with HELP requests ? Asking here is fine, although there is a "Frequently Asked Questions" posting (more or less periodically) that is a good place to look first. It's a bit difficult to figure exactly what you need since there are many archive formats, Amiga and UNIX. If you could post the file extensions, it would help. However, since you're dealing with a shar archive of a binary file from comp.binaries.amiga, I'll take a stab in the dark at it. You may have a series of files looking somwhat like part.01, part.02, part.03, etc. These are probably parts of a uuencoded file. uuencode is the UNIX program that converts a binary file in a printable-ASCII-only representation that can be posted or mailed. The counterpart program to reconstruct the binary file is uudecode. The simplest way to do things is to use a UNIX pipe like this on your UNIX machine: cat part.* | uudecode This should recreate the original binary archive. At this point, you should have a binary file that might have one of several extensions, depending on the binary archiver used to create it. The most common for Amigas are the .zoo, and .lzh, extensions which correspond to the ZOO, and LHArc archivers. These and others can be found on the ever-popular Amiga anonymous-FTP site, ab20.larc.nasa.gov as self-extracting archives (just download & execute on your Amiga to de-archive.) Download the file FILES.Z from ab20, decompress with: uncompress FILES.Z and search for zoo or lharc. That should be enough to get you started. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The DiskDoctor threatens the crew! Next time on AmigaDos: The Next Generation. John Lee Internet: johnhlee@cs.cornell.edu The above opinions of those of the user, and not of this machine.
dtiberio@libserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) (05/13/91)
In article <1991May8.093951.22883@udcf.glasgow.ac.uk> woody@udcf.glasgow.ac.uk (Ian Woodrow) writes: >HELP > >I am new to the amiga newsgroups. >Can someone tell me how to unpack the binaries that are available on the >groups ? I've pulled some down (in 4 parts) and ran them thru 'sh' here >on my unix workstation. NOW what ? Presumably I need some sort of un- >packing tool --- WHAT is used for unpacking the amiga code and WHERE CAN >I GET THIS TOOL ? ALSO; with the prog being in 4 parts, I take it I >should concatenate them before running them through this unpacker, whatever >it may be. file compressors: .lzh lharc, lhunarc, lharcA, lharc+, lz .arc arc, pkax, unarc .zoo zoo, booz .zip pkazip (Do not use unzip) disk compressors: .dms DMS Disk Masher, DMSwin .wrp warp, unwarp (vers 1.4 is a hack), nibwarp (hack), warpsplit .lhw lhwarp .zom zoom (if it crashes, try an older version) .dmp dimp .zap zap .trax puttrax special formats: .pp power packer, ppmore .uu uudecode .exe this will decompress itself, and may contain a PAK archive or a DMS archive executable compressors: none powerpacker, turbo powerpacker (hack) none imploder, turbo imploder >Cheers, >W@@DY_______________________________________________________________________ > /Ian Woodrow, Computing Service, Uni of Glasgow, GLASGOW G12 8QQ, Scotland \ -- David Tiberio SUNY Stony Brook 2-3481 AMIGA DDD-MEN "If you think that we're here for the money, we could live without it. But the world isn't too good here, and it wasn't always like that." Un ragazzo di Casalbordino, Italia.