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- From: dent@cwis.unomaha.edu (Dave Caplinger)
- Subject: Re: pine on jagubox
- Message-ID: <dent.725151144@cwis>
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- Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
- References: <BzHstp.DzJ@world.std.com> <1992Dec20.220304.26687@newsgate.sps.mot.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:52:24 GMT
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- gpb@gpb-mac (greg berryman ) writes:
- >kingtut@world.std.com (Kingtut) writes:
- >: I d/l the file pine3.05.tar.Z from jagubox and tried to decompress it on
- >: my system. But it said that the file is not in compressed format. Is this
- >: a problem with the file or with my system??
- >
- >Did you use binary mode for the transfer? If not, try it that way.
- >
- >Greg.
-
- If you downloaded the program with a Mac commuications program (like Zterm)
- but into an A/UX directory, the file will be an AppleSingle format Mac OS
- file. (Type "file pine3.05.tar.Z" to find out what kind of file A/UX thinks
- it is.) If this is the case, you can do this to convert it:
-
- % fcnvt -d pine3.05.tar.Z pine.tar.Z
- % rm pine3.05.tar.Z %pine.tar.Z
-
- (This converts the AppleSingle file to a two-part AppleDouble file, with
- the data fork in "pine.tar.Z" and the resource fork in "%pine.tar.Z")
-
- You'll be left with "pine.tar.Z" which will be a cmpressed tar file that you
- can "uncompress" and "tar -xf". Note that none of this will work if you don't
- take Greg's advice above and be sure to download it as an 8-bit binary file.
-
- There's probably a simpler way to do all that, but this is the method I use...
- You could avoid all of this by using an A/UX appliation (such a kermit) to
- download the file straight into an A/UX directory and as a UNIX file, but in
- my case I've locked my modem at 19.2Kbps and the C-Kermit that comes with
- A/UX 3.0 refuses to acknowledge that speeds faster than 9600bps exist. Also,
- I like Zterm better anyway. :-)
-
- - Dave Caplinger
- dent@loria.omahug.org (A/UX)
- dent@cwis.unomaha.edu
-