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2 total messages Started by acsrdl Tue, 05 Jan 1993 04:46

#402

Author: acsrdl
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 04:46

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John,

	Seeing lots of neat stuff archived as ascii posts is great, but I
for one haven't been able to unarchive any of it.  Could you post a short
description of the process that should be used?  (assuming, of course,
that "extract the post as a continuous file and strip off everything that
looks like English" is the first step.)  Thanks!
                                   //
Dave Toal (and his A1000)        \X/

Re: LZH archive posts.

#404

Author: John Bickers
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 16:25

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Quoted from <C0D6L4.1n6@umassd.edu> by acsrdl@UMASSD.EDU:

> for one haven't been able to unarchive any of it.  Could you post a short
> description of the process that should be used?  (assuming, of course,

    No problem. You need the following two programs:

    uudecode    - converts ASCII back to binary, available as part of
                  AmigaUUCP.
    
    lha         - Stefan Boberg's LHA 1.38. Available via ftp and from
                  most Amiga BBSs.

    Then the sequence is:

    1.  Save the article. You don't need to strip anything unless it's
        a multi-part posting (ie, several articles make up the same
        file). If you do strip out stuff, just strip between the cut
        lines (eg, -------- 8< -------- ).

    2.  Decode it. With the Amiga uudecode this is just:

            uudecode <article file name>

        uudecode will search for the "begin" line, and decode
        everything up to the "end" line.

    3.  Use LHA to view or extract from the resulting .LZH file.

    Of course this varies when people use ZOO to make the archive, or
    BTOA to encode the file, or make a shar file, or make a tar.Z
    file, but that's just a matter of having the right software.

> Dave Toal (and his A1000)        \X/
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*** John Bickers, TAP.                   jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz ***
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