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From: schow@bnr-public.uucp (Stanley Chow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: comp.binaries.amiga shar files are ANNOYING !
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Date: 30 Apr 89 16:53:16 GMT
References: <158@maytag.waterloo.edu>
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In article <158@maytag.waterloo.edu> giguere@aries5.waterloo.edu (Eric Giguere) writes:
>Yes, but these files that are encoded with the X's in front need to have
>the UNIX sed program around... I have shar, but not sed -- is there an
>Amiga version?  I would much prefer to download a whole shar file down to
>my Amiga and unshar it there than have to do it on Unix and download all
>the little bits...
>

I have settled on what *I* think is a much better way:
     - unshar, uudecode, etc. to get all the raw files
     - zoo all the bits together.
     - btoa (smaller and much more robust than uuencoded)
     - down load
     - btoa -a to get back the zoo file

This means I get to look at the doc's before I down load, and the zoo'ed
file after btoa is usually much smaller than all the bits added together.
Also, with the error correction of btoa (and a MNP class 5 modem), I use
ASCII capture to download, getting very close to maximum modem through-put.
[Ha, I haven't gotten DNet to work yet, and Kermit is SLOW.]



Stanley Chow       ..!utgpu!bnr-vpa!bnr-fos!schow%bnr-public
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Disclaimer: My boss doesn't even know I am using the Unix boxes to
	    do this! No, I don't represent them.