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From: terry@helios.ucsc.edu (Terry Ricketts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: LOOKING FOR PUBLIC DOMAIN/SHAREWARE WORD PROCESSOR
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Date: 22 Apr 91 15:37:02 GMT
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In article <1991Apr21.165953.24116@ariel.unm.edu> cs3871aa@triton.unm.edu (Student Class Account) writes:
>In article <8117@idunno.Princeton.EDU> sksircar@shade.Princeton.EDU (Subrata Sircar) writes:

>>I have used ftp extensively to get UNIX and Mac software, and have access to
>>UNIX, IBM PS/2's and Macs.  Please also tell me (once I've acquired the 
>>software from some friendly FTP site) what I must do to get the thing into a
>>running Amiga binary.  Thanks very much!


>If anyone who has this info could post, I, for one, would be much obliged.  I
>have downloaded gobs of binaries for the Amiga, but can't get them to run, so
>they sit around on my Unix feed (severely annoying the system manager).  It
>takes me an hour to get something unpacked (unencoded, untangled, etc.) and
>then the silly thing won't run!  Sigh.

   If you are getting the files from a FTP site you should be able to directly
port it to the Amiga. Most of the files stored on the FTP sites I am aware of
are Amiga code that has been archived with lharc (or sometimes zoo). I just
'get' it from the FTP site, put it on a floppy, take it home, read the floppy,
unarc it, and run it. Never had a problem.
   If you are getting the files from comp.binaries.amiga or some site that is
archiving them, you will have to do a bit more massaging to get the Amiga file.
But it certainly shouldn't take an hour to do. Usually all that is necessary
is to use an editor to remove the header from each of the files, use 'sh' to
unshar the files that have been combined, and sometimes use uudecode to 
decode some files that have been uuencoded (they usually have .uu on the end).
you might have to 'cat' the files together at the end. There is a unix script
posted to ab20 that will do all this for you. I believe it was called 'shtozoo'.
It automatically does all the stuff above and produces a .zoo file for you. 
   If you have access to a FTP site you will generally find that everything in
comp.binaries.amiga turns up on ab20 shortly after (& sometimes before) 
already massaged and in .lzh form. So you rarely ever need to do any of the
contortions you are going through. Those without FTP access are stuck with it.



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