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From: gutierrez@noc.arc.nasa.gov (Robert Michael Gutierrez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: pbmplus on abcfd20 TOO LARGE!!!
Message-ID: <1990Nov28.033029.29613@nas.nasa.gov>
Date: 28 Nov 90 03:30:29 GMT
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Reply-To: gutierrez@noc.arc.nasa.gov (Robert Michael Gutierrez)
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I wanted to thank everybody who told me or sent Lharc for Unix.  It works
fine, and it solved my problem below:

In article <36267@cup.portal.com>, thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:
> 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?  

Once I found Lharc for my Sun, that's exactly what I did.

> 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? 

Yep, the Grid has an ethernet card right inside, and I upload everything
directly onto the floppy (if it's small) or the internal hardrive if it's
really big.  I tried to look for Lharc for MS-DOS, but even though the
west coast MilNet gateway to simtel20 is 5 buildings away, it's *STILL*
too slow and too many users always on it to ftp from...

(You should see pbmplus fly when I ftp it...about 20 seconds...  Nice to
_be_ a backbone :-)

> 	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.

Found out myself when I took the archive apart myself. Oh well, I'm not
a programmer anyway, just curious.


   robert