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- From: cyberman@exucom.com (Stephen R. Phillips)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.hack
- Subject: Re: Newbie Question
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.042833.2943@exucom.com>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 04:28:33 GMT
- References: <1992Dec21.001759.25232@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- Dirk C Baltzly (dbaltzly@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu) wrote:
- :
- : I'm new to the game and not very computer literate etc., etc.
- :
- : I have copies of the spoiler files (Part01.Z thru Part06.Z) and wonder what I
- : should do with them now. I tried unzipping them (zip110), but they don't seem
- : to be zip files and they are definitely not ascii.
- :
- : Would it help if I went down into the dungeon, found a wand of wishing, and
- : created a ring of decoding? Suggestions/spoilers on this one would be
- : appreciated.
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- Try using uncompress.
- IE (zcat is uncompress with the STDIO option)
- foreach $f (*.Z)
- zcat $f > $f.asc
- end
- mv *.Z.asc *.asc
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- That should uncompress each *.Z file and write them to stdout then
- redirect them to *.Z.asc
- the
- mv *.Z.asc *.asc
- renames the *.Z.asc to *.asc
- unless you have tar4dos you have to do this on a unix machine.
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