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From: gpvos@cs.vu.nl (Gerben 'P' Vos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn,eunet.micro.acorn
Subject: Re: 8-bit BBC postings
Keywords: 8-bit
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Date: 9 Jan 91 08:18:51 GMT
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patrick@sideways.gen.nz (Pat Cain) writes:
>How about developing a BBC version of uuen/decode?  In NZ we use a 
>program that merges BBC files into one, preserving the load/exec 
>addresses, that may be useful especially if non-source is going to be 
>posted.

In the Netherlands, we use two programs which arc and unarc files.
The programs are called Xarc and ArcRom (both are Rom images). ArcRom is a
bit buggy for large files, but they work quite adequate.
They are compatible with both Messy-DOS Arc 5.1 and !Spark (at least 1.00),
but I'm not sure that there is a provision for load/exec addresses.
My solution usually is to include a file "ExecMe" which changes the
load/exec addresses when *EXEC'ed.

If there is interest, i'll have a try at posting them (using Unix uuencode).

-					Gerben