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From: tadguy@cs.odu.edu (Tad Guy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Simple questions about moderated groups and Bridgeboard
Summary: common q: file.zu?
Keywords: No Flames! Ill-tempered developers please ignore!
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Date: 5 May 89 04:33:37 GMT
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In-reply-to: doug@homxc.ATT.COM (D.SULPY)

[ Well, I'm often ill-tempered, but I'm not a developer ... ]

In article <6526@homxc.ATT.COM>, doug@homxc (D.SULPY) writes:
>This seems to work ok, and I end up with a number of sequentially
>numbered files with a .zu extention.

Good.

>The intro posting makes no reference to a .zu extention.

The intro should be updated, then.

>Can I assume this refers to something which must first be run through
>uudecode on the Amiga side, and then zoo (also on the Amiga side) to
>be able to run properly?

This is the most common question I get asked (probably since the
archives on xanth are verbatim copies of what Bob posts).

The *.zu? files are *parts* of *one* LARGE uuencoded file.

Since you already have the files on your UNIX box (as you mentioned),
go ahead and use the UNIX cat command to join these files into one
LARGE *.zuu file:

xanth% ls -1
joe.zu1
joe.zu2
joe.zu3
xanth% cat joe.zu? > tmp

Now, since you're still on your UNIX box, use the uudecode you
(should) have there to turn tmp into a Zoo file:

xanth% uudecode tmp
xanth% ls -1
joe.zoo
joe.zu1
joe.zu2
joe.zu3
tmp

Then, download the zoo file to your Amiga (using some kind of binary
protocol, like Zmodem, or Kermit in Image Mode, etc.)

If you do your concatenation and uudecoding on your UNIX box, you'll
save yourself a lot of download time, since the zoo file is going to
be smaller than the uuencoded files.  

Hope this helps.  
	
	...tad