Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!daver!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: UUCP Message-ID: <1990Dec28.004127.26698@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 28 Dec 90 00:41:27 GMT References: <40083@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 31 PYC136@uriacc.uri.edu (Andy Patrizio) writes: >Arg, this is frustrating... >On ux1.cso.uiuc.edu, Fred Fish disk #360, there is UUCP.zoo, measuring over >950k in size. How in the world am I supposed to get that on a floppy? I'd >like to start using UUCP, since we have a UNIX BBS in my area, but there's >no way I can download that file. Well, if you intend to use UUCP, you're going to find lots of files to download that aren't sized for any Amiga floppy. Two $$ solutions to your problem are a harddrive and more ram. A $ solution is the new AED 1.4M or so floppy drive. The cheapo solution is to borrow a friend's machine, or download the file onto a Unix host with zoo, take the file apart, and repack it in two parts to store on floppy and use on your machine. Really, though, if there's 950K of compressed files there, they're going to be a lot bigger unarchived, and you just aren't going to be using them on a minimal configuration Amiga. By the way, the packing efficiency of lharc is enough better than zoo that that file probably would fit on a single Amiga floppy repacked as an .lzh file, if the archive maintainers are listening; I usually get about an extra 20% compression repacking a .zoo as a .lzh file. It is all a bit odd, since presumably any Fish Disk, even downloadable, once fit on an Amiga disk. Looks like someone got a little too clever in building the archive and combined some things better left separate. Kent, the man from xanth.