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From: dac@prolix.ccadfa.oz.au (Andrew Clayton)
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Subject: Re: UUCP
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Date: 28 Dec 90 13:05:20 GMT
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In article <40083@nigel.ee.udel.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.

UnZoo the file on the host machine, and then archive portions of it until it
is within your size limit, then transmit those, changing floppies as they
become close to full.

If you cannot access the host machine at command level, then you're probably
not going to be able to achieve what you want to do.  If you had a
reasonable amount of memory (2.5Mb) you could download it straight to
memory, and unZoo individual files from it onto floppy.

Running UUCP in a floppy environment would be my idea of a nightmare, but
that's my personal bias, and irrelevant to your wants and needs.

Good luck.

> Andy Patrizio            |  ARPA:     pyc136@uriacc.uri.edu

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