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From: BROE@AARDVARK.UCS.UOKNOR.EDU (Bruce Roe)
Newsgroups: bionet.software
Subject: uudecode and pkunpak
Message-ID: <8904231429.AA23392@net.bio.net>
Date: 23 Apr 89 14:30:00 GMT
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	A recent posting from John Hilfinger requested info regarding file
compression-decompression programs and their availability as follows:

>Date: Sat 22 Apr 89 12:12:56-PDT
>From: John Hilfinger <GGREENBERG.HILFINGER@bionet-20.bio.net>
>Subject: uudecode and pkunpak
>To: contributed-software@bionet-20.bio.net
>Cc: pc-software@bionet-20.bio.net
>Message-Id: <12488225756.19.GGREENBERG.HILFINGER@BIONET-20.BIO.NET>

>Could someone tell me where I might get the UUDECODE and PKUNPAK programs
>needed to decode and unpack M. Zuker's PCFOLD program.  Once decoded, can
>ARC substitute for PKUNPAK?  Thanks in advance.

>John Hilfinger
>John_Hilf@um.cc.umich.edu

Dear John,
	Last question first.  Most likely you cannot substitute PKARC for
PKUMPAK, but why use ARC when PKUNPAK is specifically what was used to
pack the file??  There are many such programs and in my limited experience
it is best to use what is recommended, especially with binary files.
	You can obtain the files you asked about from BIONET.
They are available by ANOMYNOUS ftp to net.bio.net. Once you logon to 
net.bio.net and see the * prompt you should type:

     cd public

The dir command will show you what is in the public directory:

*dir
<PORT command successful.
<Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls (0 bytes).
<Transfer complete.
total 8
drwxr-sr-x  2 0        101           512 Mar  5 19:36 barrnet
drwxrwsr-x  4 172      101           512 Mar 27 23:13 db
drwxrwsr-x 13 172      101           512 Mar 27 23:23 dos
drwxrwsr-x  7 172      101           512 Mar 24 19:17 mac
-rw-rw-r--  1 172      101           217 Feb 28 23:49 readme.doc
drwxrwsr-x  3 172      101           512 Jan 23 21:58 sri-nic
drwxrwsr-x  3 172      101           512 Mar 30 07:12 unix-hacks
drwxr-sr-x  2 172      101           512 Apr 21 01:29 vms
493 bytes in 4 seconds--984 bps

Since the programs you desire are in the dos directory the following will
get you there and the dir command will show you what is available

*cd dos
<CWD command successful.
*dir
<PORT command successful.
<Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls (0 bytes).
<Transfer complete.
total 12
drwxrwsr-x  2 172      101           512 Mar 23 22:50 alx3
drwxrwxr-x  2 172      10            512 Mar  1 00:15 dearchive
drwxrwxr-x  2 172      10            512 Feb 23 18:07 gel
drwxrwxr-x  2 172      10            512 Mar  1 00:15 molecule
drwxrwxr-x  2 172      10            512 Mar 14 18:22 mskermit
drwxrwxr-x  2 172      10            512 Feb 25 00:56 oligo
drwxrwxr-x  2 172      10            512 Apr 13 19:19 pcfold
drwxrwxr-x  2 172      10            512 Feb 23 19:37 plasmid
-rw-rw-r--  1 172      101           868 Mar 27 23:23 readme.doc
drwxrwxr-x  2 172      10            512 Mar 20 21:58 seqaid
drwxrwxr-x  2 172      10            512 Feb 24 22:34 tdalign
drwxrwxr-x  2 172      10            512 Jan 24 20:36 util
746 bytes in 6 seconds--992 bps

The dearchiving programs are in the dearchive directory, so do the following:

*cd dearchive
<CWD command successful.
*dir
<PORT command successful.
<Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls (0 bytes).
<Transfer complete.
total 375
-rw-rw-r--  1 172      10         190511 Feb 28 00:26 dearchiv.uue
-rw-rw-r--  1 172      10         119598 Feb 28 00:01 pk361.exe
-rw-rw-r--  1 172      10          15112 Feb 27 23:53 pkunpak.exe
-rw-rw-r--  1 172      10           3901 Feb 28 21:26 readme.doc
-rw-rw-r--  1 172      10           1987 Feb 27 23:41 uudecode.bas
-rw-rw-r--  1 172      10           3089 Feb 27 23:34 uudecode.c
-rw-rw-r--  1 172      10          10626 Feb 27 23:43 uudecode.exe
-rw-rw-r--  1 172      10            668 Feb 27 23:41 uuencdec.doc
-rw-rw-r--  1 172      10          10140 Feb 27 23:42 uuencode.exe
605 bytes in 5 seconds--968 bps

You can type help to see the avaiable commands or just go and use the ftp
command BGET to transfer the .exe files to your host computer.
Note that since the files you want are .exe, you should transfer them
in binary mode, thus use bget instead of just get.

Once you have transfered the binary files you want to your host computer
you can end the ftp session by typing exit to return to your VAX and see
the usual $ prompt as follows:

*exit
$
                             
The problem now is to transfer the binary files from the VAX to your PC.
Here you MUST remember that they are binary files and that any transfer
mode MUST BE BINARY.  You'll have to figure this out yourself depending
on what terminal emulator you are using.

While we're at it, the BIONET staff should be commended for putting up
this service for us.  FTP is a very powerful tool for file transfer and
amazingly fast and much simpler to use than file servers.

			Good luck,

			Bruce A. Roe
			University of Oklahoma
			BROE@aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu

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