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From: D.M.Johnson@newcastle.ac.uk (Dave Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Help Wanted: Chicken & Egg Problem
Keywords: starter pack  uudecode  lharc
Message-ID: <1990Dec6.134716.19620@newcastle.ac.uk>
Date: 6 Dec 90 13:47:16 GMT
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In article <1990Dec6.103859.12817@newcastle.ac.uk>,
J.D.Coleman@newcastle.ac.uk (Julian Coleman) writes:
>>    Or, am I way off base -- I dunno (AAARGH!).  What we do have
>> is the PD version of uniterm.  And a host machine (obviously).
>> Therefore we can get some code from the net, but we don't have
>> 'uudecode', 'compress' and/or other UNIX-type stuff you people must
>> have.
>
>>    And that's the chicken & egg problem we are trying to resolve.
>
>Would it be an idea if there was a 'starter pack' available on an FTP site
>( e.g. Atari.Archive )?  This could consist of uudecode / arc / lharc / zoo
>etc. and be in the form of a self-unpacking archive.  Thus, when this was
>downloaded, the 'chicken & egg' situation would be resolved.
>
>If there is any interest, I'll make one up and upload it.
>
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	For those in the UK, Lancaster university FTP site has a directory 
(p99) in the atari section which contains all the software: eg
arc,lharc,zoo,uudecode,uuencode. It has the code for uudecode in both C
and old atari Basic as a bootstrap to get the actual version of uudecode
to work. More detaisl from them.

Hope this helps

Dave