Re: LZH archive posts.

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2 total messages Started by Pete Baker Wed, 06 Jan 1993 04:49

#406

Author: Pete Baker
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 04:49

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On Tue  5-Jan-1993 11:46p,  wrote:
> 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!

you should first strip off the stuff before and after the --------------- 
lines.
then use a program like UUdecode or some such to unencode the file from 
ASCII format back to the LHA file it once was.  then take the resulting
files and remane them to include the .LHA suffix and Unarchive them as usual.

there are a few other ways to do this.. but for a beginner this is one
of the more straight forward ones.

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Re: LZH archive posts.

#407

Author: Udo K Schuermann
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 18:05

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In article <pbaker.04yt@tbag.tscs.com> pbaker@tbag.tscs.com (Pete Baker) writes:
>On Tue  5-Jan-1993 11:46p,  wrote:
>> 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
>
>you should first strip off the stuff before and after the --------------- 
>lines.
>then use a program like UUdecode or some such to unencode the file from 

Minor clarification: only when you join a split-up multi-piece posting do
you need to edit the material in between the pieces to make the breaks
seamless.  If the entire thing is contained in a single file you do not
need to edit away any header text.  UUdecode will find the 'begin ...' line
all by itself.
	Things are different, of course, if you have files wrapped by shar,
but those usually have more detailed instructions, so I won't bother with
those here.

Just thought I save someone needless effort.  Cheers!

 ._.  Udo Schuermann
 ( )  walrus@wam.umd.edu

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