Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!ljdickey
From: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Downloading of PD Programs
Message-ID: <1509@water.waterloo.edu>
Date: 11 Apr 88 12:19:56 GMT
References: <8804071813.AA05507@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <8804071813.AA05507@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Dave Rubin writes:

>         ... .  My question is, how are the
>files stored (I assume they are compressed), what programs do I need
>to decompress them, and where can I get these programs?

Start with UUDECODE.BAS  .    Use it *once* (smile) to uudecode
an encoded version of a "real" uuencode.  Look for the Dumas version
called UUD and UUE, maybe stored as UUX or UUX.ARC or UUX.UUE .

Get yourself a copy of ARC, and uudecode that.

Then you are set for everything, almost.  
Most of the stuff you can get has be ARCed and then UUencoded.
You need to UUdecode and then unARC (ARC x *.arc) the file.

You might find one or two text files that have been combined using "SHAR",
but they is not too common. 

>Also, if I simply copy the programs directly from the IBM PC to a 3.5"
>disk, will the ATARI be able to read them?

Yes.  You will be able to go the other way too if you use a disk that
has been formatted on an IBM PC.  One can find IBM formatters for the ST.
There are subtle differences.

>    ...                    I am mainly interested in getting the
>Uniterm communications program.

Uniterm is great.

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