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- From: sourada@iastate.edu (Steven D Ourada)
- Subject: Re: Kermit-65 source code
- Message-ID: <sourada.725062825@vincent1.iastate.edu>
- Keywords: KERMIT, UNARC, huge, VT100, Speedscript, Catch-22
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
- References: <1992Dec19.090253.7940@merk.com> <1gu5qqINN79a@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1gvcv3INNp04@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1992Dec22.145256.8122@merk.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 22:20:25 GMT
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- In <1992Dec22.145256.8122@merk.com> winston@merk.com (Winston Smith) writes:
-
- (I thought I'd follow-up to the group just because this might be interesting
- to others...)
-
- >I performed an FTP request (called a "get" I believe?) of the KERMIT-65
- >source code. The good news is that the file was delivered to the
- >requesting UNIX machine. The bad news is that the file was delivered in
- >an "ARC" format as one large file of over eight hundred double-density
- >sectors! What the heck am I supposed to do with this?!??
- [...]
- > Needless to say, I am placed in a "Catch-22" situation. The KERMIT-65
- >source files are --NOT-- in an ATARI 8-BIT format, but in some text format
- >too large to be contained on an ATARI 8-BIT drive. I can not successfully
- >download this humongous file to an ATARI 8-BIT and then UNARC it. Is there
- >some way that I can UNARC this behemoth on a UNIX system? I know that UNIX
- >uses COMPRESS, TAR, and ZOO, but I do not believe that I have seen ARC on a
- >UNIX box before.
- [...]
- >Does anyone out there have any ideas how to solve this problem? Thanks.
- >
-
- Kermit 65 was written and assembled on another system (an ST, I believe). The
- ST was of course able to handle the size of the file, but it's kind of
- impossible to work with on the 8bits. If you're only interested in reading
- some of the code, you just need to unARC it on another system (yep, there
- are Unix-compatible ARC's out there...), then either look at it on that system
- or break it up for use on the 8bit.
-
- If you want to change the code and reassemble it, your best bet it to use
- another system and a cross-assembler. (Atari's Madmac assembler for the ST
- will assemble 6502) If you can't get ahold of another system and assembler,
- you will have to be very patient and inventive :-)
-
- Later,
- Steven Ourada
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- Steven Ourada -- sourada@iastate.edu
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