Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!inesc!unl!unl!spa From: spa@fct.unl.pt (Salvador Pinto Abreu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: only_ste.lzh (was Re: ST User Virus!) Message-ID: Date: 29 May 91 12:54:15 GMT References: <1991May24.015422.23817@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> <10099@suns2.crosfield.co.uk> <1991May28.202555.16251@lsuc.on.ca> Sender: news@fct.unl.pt (USENET News System) Distribution: comp Organization: Universidade Nova de Lisboa -- Lisbon, Portugal Lines: 37 In-Reply-To: ralph@laas.fr's message of 29 May 91 10:00:03 GMT on 29 May 91 10:00:03 GMT, ralph@laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek) said: > I used "split" on my > SPARC to chop the file in half. Each half was put on a separate > floppy and taken home. > At home, I became worried about concatenating two binary file parts > together. I then decided to run full blown GNU emacs (not mg, jove, > nor micro-emacs) with a 1 Mb RAM disk. I then inserted into my emacs > buffer both halfs of the file and saved it to the RAM disk. Of course > there was no more room to unpack the file. It tested out okay. Well, > I copied it to a floppy and extracted back to the RAM disk. I then > ran MSA to create the demo floppy. Ouffhh!!! ;-| The exact procedure I followed was to run lharc on Unix (a DECstation 5000 unpacks LZH archives a *little* faster than an ST :-), split the file in two, and then wrote the floppies. On the ST the easiest way I found to do this was to `cat' the two parts (using GNU cat from cs.uni-sb.de), a lot faster than creating a RAMdisk and using GNU Emacs, I'd say... > Did anyone have a much easier time of it? I only hope that few items > of this sort travel through USENET or are uploaded to atari.archive. > Normally, large *.lzh or *.zoo can be split up differently since the > individual member files are less than 720 Kb. The thing might be to have a simple stand-alone SPLIT/JOIN program on the ST. If I knew more about GEM I'd do it myself (maybe I'll give it a try someday). By "simple" I mean one that does NOTHING but the equivalent of Unix's split and cat, ie. no headers or CRC's. Anyway, regarding the only_ste demo, I must confess it's absolutely fabulous. -- -- Salvador Pinto Abreu spa@fct.unl.pt Universidade Nova de Lisboa, PORTUGAL