Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!uunet!comcon!roy From: roy@comcon.UUCP (Roy M. Silvernail) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: ABE Source (Part 1/3) & introduction Message-ID: <334@comcon.UUCP> Date: 26 Feb 90 19:13:27 GMT References: <100765@looking.on.ca> <534@sixhub.UUCP> <333@comcon.UUCP> <102691@looking.on.ca> Organization: Computer Connection, Anchorage Alaska Lines: 45 In article <102691@looking.on.ca>, brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes: > There is a DOS executable of DABE that was posted (Not in ABE format) to > the parent of this group. It would be done again if the format is to > be used in this group. > I'll look for it, then... I like to have as complete a set of pack/unpack methods as possible. > If the tinydabe didn't work, it it possible you did not define the > "msdos" symbol? I admit I used MS C, not Turbo C, in compiling DABE > for dos. That's entirely possible, and I'll try it. > > It is not intended to act as a filter, either. You just give it the > input files as arguments. Ok, but the Unix-compiled version of Tiny-DABE worked as a filter. Perhaps I misunderstood the directions for unpacking. | Message-ID: <100765@looking.on.ca> | Date: 22 Feb 90 22:28:51 GMT | Organization: Looking Glass Software Limited, Waterloo ON | [...] | What use is that? I used the +d option, and it prepended the | source for the tiny abe2 decoder to the first part. Take that source | and compile it, then go | | cat part1 part2 part3 | tiny-dabe >abe.arc | | Or, if you like: | | sort (parts-in-any-order) | tiny-dabe >abe.arc | | to demonstrate that even the tiny-dabe can handle postings in a random | order. Looked like a filter to me. I'll give the define in Turbo C a try. Thanks for your response, Brad. -- _R_o_y _M_. _S_i_l_v_e_r_n_a_i_l | UUCP: uunet!comcon!roy | "Every race must arrive at this #include ;#define opinions MINE | point in its history" SnailMail: P.O. Box 210856, Anchorage, | ........Mr. Slippery Alaska, 99521-0856, U.S.A., Earth, etc. |