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From: swh@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (Steve Harrold)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Reading Minix diskettes on MSDOS
Message-ID: <11680005@hpsmtc1.HP.COM>
Date: 3 Apr 89 16:31:54 GMT
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Re: MIN2DOS unwrapping problem

The MIN2DOS package I recently uploaded was "shar"ed using a Unix system,
and I was assuming that recipients of it would also be running on a Unix
system.  If this is not the case, I apologize.  Here's some more detailed
instructions:

Under Unix, execute the command:

	sh file

where "file" is the name you gave to the file you created to hold the
complete package.  The "sh" is simply the Bourne shell which will understand
how to unwrap the package (the package is just a Bourne shell script) and 
create for you a binary file named "min2dos.arc".

If you are doing the unwrapping in a non-Unix environment, then edit the
package to create a file that begins with the line that says:

	begin 664 min2dos.arc

and ends with the line that says:

	end

There will be a completely blank line before the "end" line. The file will 
contain exactly 1092 lines of ascii text.

Take this file and run it through the "uudecode" program, if you have it,
or else use the "unpack$$" program whose source was supplied with the package.
The result will also be a binary file named "min2dos.arc".

In either situation, you must then use a BINARY file transfer protocol to
download it to your MSDOS PC; I can't stress this enough as this seems to
be the biggest source of error of casual users of file transfer facilities.
After the download, the "min2dos.arc" file should be exactly 49,002 bytes
in length.

You can use ANY of the ARC-compatible de-archivers (PKXARC, ARCE, ARC) to
extract the files (for those in the know, there are no "squashed" files in
the archive).  

If you have further problems please let me know.
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