Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!edsews!charette
From: charette@edsews.EDS.COM (Mark A. Charette)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: getting downloaded stuff to work.
Message-ID: <7237@edsews.EDS.COM>
Date: 22 Dec 88 12:58:28 GMT
References: <13740@srcsip.UUCP>
Organization: EDS/TSD - Troy, MI
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In article <13740@srcsip.UUCP>, rogers@orion.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Brynn Rogers) writes:
> 
> I Have been having some trouble getting most things I download to work.
> 
> This is what I do:
>    when I am reading news (rn) I save the files that are interesting 
>    later I use PC-NFS to copy all the stuff from SUNs down to a PC.
>    I copy it to my harddrive on my home system (AT clone)
>    I use UNIX2DOS to get the end-of-lines fixed.
>    I edit the news header out (everything before the part01/02 or begin line)
>    I use uudecode to turn it into a something.arc file. (no errors reported)
> 	 (I use a uudecode I got off of the simtel20, I don't know which)
>    I use PKARC to turn it into real files.   (this is what gives me a problem)

The process I use (and have never had any trouble with (except for those
few programs which are in trouble before I get my greasy hands on them))
is:

1) Save the stuff on the (Sun,Apollo,HP,DEC,IBM, whatever you're using)

2) edit header

3) combine & uudecode to get the *.arc file

4) At this point I use:
   a: PC/NFS to get it off the (whatever) system - or -
   b: download via kermit in binary mode - or -
   c: grab it via one of our PC emulators on the (whatever) systems

That way I never have to fuss with the CR/LF mapping (even though kermit
will handle that for me - as will uupc) and I just have the compressed
binary to put on my PC at home.

Hope this helps (and saves you some time).
-- 
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