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From: toth@tellab5.tellabs.CHI.IL.US (toth@tellab2 (Tellabs, Inc., - Lisle, Il.))
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.apple2
Subject: Re: How do I 'unpack'
Summary: BLU unpack program
Keywords: apple][, binaries
Message-ID: <1121@tellab5.tellabs.CHI.IL.US>
Date: 15 Dec 88 13:48:28 GMT
References: <95@bvax.UUCP> <5715@saturn.ucsc.edu> <12034@cos.com> <9170@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Organization: Tellabs, Inc. Lisle, IL
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In article <9170@smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
> In article <12034@cos.com> smith@cos.UUCP (Steve Smith) writes:
> -In article <5715@saturn.ucsc.edu> starbrd@ucscg.UCSC.EDU (Steven W.) writes:
> -|In article <95@bvax.UUCP> dave@bvax.UUCP (Dave Wallace) writes:
> -Ditto for me.  It's getting to look like it might be profitable to just
> -post it.
> 
> If you guys refer to the text files starting with "CALL -151",
> you don't need a special program.  Just download the file onto
> your Apple's disk filesystem (for sake of this example let's
> name it "EXECFILE"), then from AppleSoft BASIC (] prompt) if
> you're using DOS 3.3, type "EXEC EXECFILE", or using ProDOS
> type "-EXECFILE".  It should unpack itself.


Come on Doug, if you clearly read the previous postings, it was obvious
that those posters were new to this group and had an inkling that it took
more than simply doing something with the sources as downloaded.

What you say is somewhat correct about using the EXEC command, but all that
doing this does is store the information in the Apple on the disk (in most
cases), and another program must be used to extract the data (docs and code)
to make it usable.

BLU is that program, and that is what I beleive they would like to see posted
(along with some instructions on how to use it).  The big question is: can 
BLU be posted in such a way that an EXEC on the downloaded file will generate
the executable file (or does BLU require BLU to extract BLU).
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