Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!bionet!ames!sgi!shinobu!odin!ramoth.esd.sgi.com!msc From: msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: Binary Programs on Info-Iris Message-ID: <1990Sep21.175208.266@odin.corp.sgi.com> Date: 21 Sep 90 17:52:08 GMT References: <9009201522.AA00565@> Sender: news@odin.corp.sgi.com (Net News) Reply-To: msc@sgi.com Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc., Entry Systems Division Lines: 25 In article <9009201522.AA00565@>, lmo@lsr-vax.UUCP ("Lance M. Optican - LMO") writes: |> |> Who is Paul Haeberli, and why does he give away |> all those nifty programs in binary? Paul is a Principle Engineer in our research group and he gives away all those swell programs because he's a nice guy. |> |> It would be a big help to us mere mortal programmers |> if instructions were included on extracting and |> running such programs. Save the article in a file somewhere and issue the command uudecode uudecode creates a new file which is the executable binary. Read the uudecode man page for more details. The executable binary extracted by uudecode is ready to run. -- From the TARDIS of Mark Callow msc@ramoth.sgi.com, ...{ames,decwrl}!sgi!msc "There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a proscenium to a play. It strongly defines its content."