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From: chima@dasys1.UUCP (Chima Ngene)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Shell Archives
Message-ID: <4683@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 29 May 88 02:25:18 GMT
References: <3022@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: chima@dasys1.UUCP (Chima Ngene)
Organization: Datamerica Systems, NYC
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In article <3022@crash.cts.com> johnk@pro-pac.CTS.COM (John Krause) writes:
>
>  I don't have access to the command /bin/sh which I am assuming is part of a
>UNIX system that I also do not have access. However there have been several
>shell archives come across the net that I would like to try out ie. "dmouse". 
>
>Is there a program that I can install and run from my Amiga that will allow me
>to extract the shell archives once I have ascii captured them to my terminal?


I'm afraid not, the best you could do is get the amiga version of uuencode &
uudecode (I could e-mail to you if need be).  This will allow you to extract
and create files, unfortunetly this would have to be done one file at a time,
as opposed (sp?) to having all the files in one archive (e.i. shell archive).

uuencode and decode is widely used in the UNIX world, I belive that it is used
to ensure that ^Z, NULL's, etc. are not appended to the end of the file,
amoung other things.


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