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From: lee@wang.UUCP (Lee Story x77155 ms 1989)
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Subject: Re: Re: word/count DA question
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Date: Thu, 20-Mar-86 19:07:01 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 20 19:07:01 1986
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[for the line-eater]

This is not exactly a reply to the above, but I do look forward to
trying Paul Dubois's program....

I downloaded the grep utility to our Vax with the vnews "s" command,
then uploaded to the Mac with umodem (on Unix V5, trying both the -sb
and -st options) to Red Ryder 7.0.

Since the only BinHex version I've seen on CS or UseNet in quite
a while is version 5 (and it was the only one I had), that's what
I used to reconstruct the Mac file.  Why do the recent postings to
net.sources.mac generally say to convert with BinHex 4 ?

The resulting files (plural, trying various umodem and BinHex options) all
seems (from a Fedit examination) to be the same; they had only a resource
fork, and were NOT applications.  Okay, so I changed their type to APPL,
using Fedit, and tried to launch each.  They all crashed immediately.  C'mon
experts, hypothesize.  What am I missing in this ugly chain of transmission
and conversion utilities?

1) A problem with the Unix-to-Macintosh CR/NL mess?
2) Wrong version of BinHex? (in which case where's the right one?)
3) Is it not supposed to be directly executable?? (what's Rascal??  Do I
    need to run under MacPascal or something??)
4) How about a small, PERMANENT file at UseNet nodes explaining the
    download process to mere mortals?  (Yes, I know the files cycle out
    of individual nodes after so many others have arrived, but it could
    be regularly reposted to the moderated group.)  CompuServe forums do
    such things.

Lee Story
Wang Laboratories