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From: pjh@mccc.UUCP (peter j holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Please humor me. . .
Keywords: HELP!!!!
Message-ID: <496@mccc.UUCP>
Date: 17 Dec 88 02:42:07 GMT
References: <6723@netnews.upenn.edu> <808@dinl.mmc.UUCP>
Reply-To: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg)
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In article <808@dinl.mmc.UUCP> noren@dinl.UUCP (Charles Noren) writes:
=In article <6723@netnews.upenn.edu> greenber@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Brian Greenberg) writes:
=>Someone please humor me, while I display my ignorance.
=>
=>How do I download the files in comp.binaries.ibm.pc and then put them
=>into an executable form?  I'm new at this, and I don't want to waste
=>my time downloading if I can't run the programs!

Well, you don't have to download them -- they are already on the machine
that you are reading the news on!  Just use the "w" command to write
each to a file that ends with .uue.  Then, xfr the file to your DOS box,
and unencode it.  You don't have "uudecode"?  Check you local unix
machine; the source code is probably there.  Oh, next you'll need one of
the MSDOS archiver programs.

Pete

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