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From: mjl@ut-emx.UUCP (Maurice LeBrun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: comp.binaries.amiga shar files are ANNOYING !
Message-ID: <12554@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 29 Apr 89 19:05:13 GMT
References: <4715@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk>
Reply-To: mjl@emx.UUCP (Maurice LeBrun)
Organization: UTexas Computation Center, Austin, Texas
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In article <4715@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk> rkl@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk (Richard K. Lloyd) writes:
>I just want to raise a small objection to the format of the postings to
>comp.binaries.amiga. Not everyone uses UNIX to unpack/download binaries
>(I'm sure that VMS is a very popular alternative) and hence not everyone
>has access to shar.

All the tools necessary for unpacking comp.(sources|binaries).amiga
distributions -- shar, uudecode, and zoo -- will run quite comfortably
under VMS.  I got each of these to compile under Vax C with no
problems.  For utilities which need redirection (like uuencode), it is
sometimes helpful to write a .COM file front end that redefines
SYS$INPUT and SYS$OUTPUT as necessary.  The shar I use on the vax is
the one written by by Dave Wecker.  If you need a copy of shar.c or
uu/en/de/code.c, drop me a note and I'll send them out (they're
small).

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