Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!evax!cs4344af From: cs4344af@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Fuzzy Fox) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: .SDA files (was: kermit tutorial for beginners) Message-ID: <1990Dec18.042615.17189@evax.arl.utexas.edu> Date: 18 Dec 90 04:26:15 GMT References: <90345.202633JMHAAS@MTUS5.BITNET> <11714@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> <90351.212148EAO102@psuvm.psu.edu> Organization: Computer Science Engineering Univ. of Texas at Arlington Lines: 35 In article <90351.212148EAO102@psuvm.psu.edu> EAO102@psuvm.psu.edu (Ernie Oporto) writes: > I'm having trouble with these .sda files. The correct procedure for an .SDA file is: 1. Download the file. You should end up with a PRG format file. The file is BINARY format so do not do any ASCII translation whatsoever. 2. LOAD the file on your machine. You should not have run any other software beforehand. You *might* be able to load and start up a software Fast-Loader, but this is not guaranteed to work on some of the larger .SDA files, depending on where the fast-loader is placed in memory. Note: .SDA files should be less than 202 blocks. A file larger than this will not work properly when loaded into memory. 3. RUN the .SDA file just loaded. The program should print a short message about what is in the file (although many do not tell you exactly what the contents are). You will be asked to press a key. At this point, you should make sure that there is a disk in drive 8 which has a lot of room on it (blank is usually best). When you press a key, several large files will be written to the disk in the drive. SDA files are supposed to be easy to use, so you really should not have much trouble running them. You don't need a special de-archive program to use them. Just LOAD and RUN. -- begin 644 .signature G5&AI