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From: murillo@sigi.Colorado.EDU (Rodrigo Murillo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: deARCing binaries (How?)
Message-ID: <4368@sigi.Colorado.EDU>
Date: 18 Feb 88 01:28:22 GMT
References: <812@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu>
Reply-To: murillo@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Rodrigo Murillo)
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In article <812@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> c60b-ap@buddy.Berkeley.EDU (Ron Mirasol) writes:

>In article <335@tsc.DEC.COM> pete@tsc.DEC.COM (Pete Schmitt) writes:
>
>> This is an archive (PLANETS.ARC) that must be uudecoded prior
>> to deARCing.

>What archive format exactly is this?  I have been unable to "deARC"
>any binaries that I have downloaded from the net.  I tried UNIX "ar"
>but this apparently isn't the format.  I'm sure others have had
>similar problems, so if some kind soul out there could post an answer
>it would be appreciated (as opposed to e-mail).

No problem.

1)  Save your net.binary as a text file, using the 's' option in news.
2)  Using your favorite editor,
    delete the ---- cut here ---- line and everything above it.
3)  go to the end and delete the signature.
4)  assuming you saved the result in a file called reconfig.uue
    Issue: uudecode reconfig.uue

    This should create a file called reconfig.arc 

5)  Use a binary file transfer like Kermit in binary mode or
    Xmodem and download the file to your PC.

As far as the last un-arc step goes,  PKARC on the PC should do the
job.

(This was explained to me by some kind soul via e-mail.)

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