Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utcsri.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!petera From: petera@utcsri.UUCP (Smith) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: PC-LISP redistribution (article 1 of 5) Message-ID: <2752@utcsri.UUCP> Date: Sat, 10-May-86 21:39:41 EDT Article-I.D.: utcsri.2752 Posted: Sat May 10 21:39:41 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 14-May-86 00:21:38 EDT Distribution: net Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto Lines: 85 This is the second distribution of the PC-LISP executable file in uuencoded form. There are five articles in this redistribution, they correspond to articles 1-5 or the 13 part distribution that was originally sent. These are instructions, the other five are the actual uuencoded program. Each part is less than 64K to allow for mailers with this upper limit on file size. Here is how to get PC-LISP.EXE down to your MS-DOS machine. 1) Save article 2 of 5 in a file called uu1 Save article 3 of 5 in a file called uu2 Save article 4 of 5 in a file called uu3 Save article 5 of 5 in a file called uu4 2) Edit each of the files uu1,uu2,uu3 and uu4. CAREFULLY remove all the lines at the top of each file up to and including the ----- CUT ----- line. Do not remove any of the data lines, those are the lines with M$%&..... on them. Then go to the bottom of the file and remove any trailing blank lines. There must be no lines past the last M$%&.... data line otherwise the uudecoding will be incorrect. Trailing blank lines are sometimes introduced by vnews or rn when you write an article to a file. 3) execute the following UNIX command. cat uu1 uu2 uu3 uu4 > uuu Make sure you get the order right! 4) If you are going to uudecode on your MS-DOS machine then download the uuu file to your MS-DOS machine using A TEXT MODE TRANSFER PROTOCOL. Then when you have it on your micro run your uudecode program. The resulting file pc-lisp.exe should have a file size of 139086 bytes. The file may be a little larger or smaller by up to 8000 bytes depending on your disk/operating system. If it is more than 8K larger/smaller than 139086 bytes then something is probably wrong with it. 4) if you are uudecoding on the host then execute this UNIX command. uudecode uuu You should now have a file called pc-lisp.exe on your UNIX host. It should have a file size of 139086. This file size MUST be correct on the UNIX machine or something has gone wrong. Now download the file pc-lisp.exe to your MS-DOS machine USING A BINARY TRANSFER MODE PROTOCOL. The file that you get on your MS-DOS machine should be 139086 bytes + or - 8K depending on your operating system/disk combination. Don't download it though unless it is 139086 bytes on the UNIX host! And you are done. Assuming you have the rest of the distribution you are now set to start playing with PC-LISP. If the executable does not run then you should check that you have done everything as I said in the above list. Ask yourself these questions. 1) Did I edit the files correctly, did I remove blanks from the end of each file, did I remove the headers, did I accidentally remove any data M&%.. lines? 2) Did I cat the files together in the right order? 3) Did I download the file using the correct transfer PROTOCOL? BINARY for the pc-lisp.exe file or TEXT from the uuu file, if not the resulting file will be corrupt. 4) Do I have 256K of memory? I have just performed the above procedure to download the articles to my machine, everything worked correctly. So, unless these files get corrupted in transmission they should work for you. Try it a few times before you give up and curse the net. Good Luck and have fun. Peter Ashwood-Smith #811, 120 St Patrick St. Toronto, Ontario, M5T 2X7. (416) 593-7574 P.S. The manual, executable, demos, source etc. are all available on receipt of a diskette + mailer + postage. If you want source as well you will have to send 3 diskettes (read the manual). P.P.S Comments/suggestions/bugs are welcome but I can't always reply our mailer seems not to like 50% or the return addresses it gets.