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From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: pbmplus on abcfd20 TOO LARGE!!!
Message-ID: <36267@cup.portal.com>
Date: 27 Nov 90 14:23:47 GMT
References: <1990Nov17.033236.7805@nas.nasa.gov> <36025@cup.portal.com>
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gutierrez@noc.arc.nasa.gov (Robert Michael Gutierrez)
in <1990Nov24.054412.22675@nas.nasa.gov> writes re: the "overlarge" pbmplus.lzh
on abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov:

	... So, in order to transfer the files
	from work to home, I ftp them directly onto a Grid portable (Messy-DOS
	laptop), the take the floppy home and transfer them to my Amy with
	Cross-Dos.  ...

Why not de-lharc them on the work system?  Do you REALLY have an MS-DOS system
directly on the Internet, or do you just x/y/zmodem them from your "real"
machine to the GRiD at work?  As I responded elsewhere this morning in the
message thread about "Old AmigaLibDisks", the source for lharc is readily
available and I've gotten it working on numerous machines (HP-9000/840,
HP-9000/350, 3B1, etc.)

	The archive on abcfd20 apparently contains everything in one large
	archive, source, binaries, docs, etc.  ...

Sorry to inform you, but NO source is included in that archive on abcfd20.
You'll need to get the sources from the site I originally mentioned in my
first reply: ftp.ee.lbl.gov (IP 128.3.254.68).  Dunno why some people are
so selfish to not share what was already "PD" code (re: the Amiga port of
Jef Poskanzer's original PD pbmplus).

	Oh yes ... I have 8 meg of memory on my Amy.  Is that going to be
	enough for the program?  :-) ;-) :-)

Sure!  I have more on my systems, but what you have will be adequate.  :-)

BTW, I ran a simple experiment with the pbmplus.lzh from abcfd20; the archived
pbmplus.lzh is some 965Kbytes, but my compressed/tar'd version is 802Kbytes.
Guess what: that "just" may fit on an Amiga floppy.  And both tar and compress
are readibly available for the Amiga.

Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]