[comp.binaries.acorn] v02INF0: Introduction to comp.binaries.acorn

aglover@acorn.co.uk (Alan Glover) (05/15/91)

Posting-number: Volume 02, Info 00
Submitted-by: Alan Glover <aglover@acorn.co.uk>
Archive-name: intro02

I'm still getting some reports about difficulties with !Extract arising from
the reposts of the original bootstraps.

Therefore, this posting is followed by the definitive five postings, and
by !Submit - the tool used to create postings. Note - !Submit needs to use
!SubExtWrk (as does !Extract).

The tool that will be used for taking postings from c.b.a and extracting the
original data is !Extract. The following five postings should be used to
provide you with a working copy of !Extract, and it's working directory
!SubExtWrk.

If you want to submit material to c.b.a, you can either use !Spark, or
!Submit (which follows).

If you have a UN*X box, all you need to do to extract the original data is
uudecode the articles which go to make up a contribution, then decompress it
then finally extract the files using tar.


Alan