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From: roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: unshelling GNU Plot
Message-ID: <69o5P3w163w@cybrspc>
Date: 26 Sep 90 23:18:16 GMT
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mcoffey@aix.aix.kingston.ibm.com (Michael Coffey) writes:

> In article <7101.26fcbe11@uwovax.uwo.ca>, sterling@uwovax.uwo.ca writes:
> > From: sterling@uwovax.uwo.ca
> > Subject: unshelling GNU Plot
> > 
> > I have obtained the files for GNU Plot, but am unable to use them since the
> > need to be 'shelled'. I'm not sure what is required to do this.
> > 
> It sounds like you have a shell archeive file. You need a UNIX system
> with a bourne shell. You execute the archeive file by entering the
> command: sh filename
> 
> You could do this on MS-DOS if you can get a bourne or korn shell for
> that operating system.

The ms_sh posted to c.b.i.p recently, along with the set of utilities
that accompanied it, should do fine at breaking up shell archives. I do
this quite often. Possible hangups may be if the sh archive uses chmod
to verify that a file has been written. In some cases, the shar will
call chmod with octal permissions, and some DOS chmod's only accept
symbolic permissions. There may also be conflicts of syntax with 'test'.
You'll also need to aquire a version of sed. (I think there's one on
SIMTEL)
--
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main(){float x=1;x=x/50;printf("It's only $%.2f, but it's my $%.2f!\n",x,x);}
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