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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:AMIGA NOTES
Notice:Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:HYDRA::MOORE
Created:Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5378
Total number of notes:38326

619.0. "SHAR, Anyone?" by WALLAC::MACKELPRANG (Who R U) Tue Jul 28 1987 16:57

    Can anyone point me in the right direction to get a VMS - executable
    copy of SHAR so that I can use all the fun looking goodies from
    USENET?  Any info would be greatly appreciated.
    
    Thanks in advance.
    
    Mark -
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619.1PLDVAX::SMCAFEESteve McAfeeTue Jul 28 1987 22:3413
    
    You can copy shar.c and shar.exe from
    
      ant::bipolar:[smcafee.public]
    
    Some of the usenet shar files have multiple periods in the file
    names they contain.  Obviously this runs into problems for VMS.
    I modified this version to change the second and subsequent periods
    to an 'x' so beware.
    
    regards,
    
    steve mcafee
619.2UsenetMPGS::FERNANDEZTue Jul 28 1987 23:258
    
    
    	Since people here seem to be familiar with usenet, could somebody
    tell me how to access conferences on that system?
    
    				Thanks
    						Steve
619.3PLDVAX::SMCAFEESteve McAfeeWed Jul 29 1987 10:0715
    
    See note 22 and its replies.  The supposedly active conferences
    are:    comp.sys.amiga
            comp.sources.amiga
            comp.binaries.amiga
    
    For the past few weeks I haven't been getting much from any of
    these.  They seem to have been reactivated in the past few days
    however as I've started to get mail again.  A warning though, if
    you subscribe to all three, be prepared to go through (or at least
    delete) a number of large mail messages each day.
    
    regards,
    
    steve mcafee
619.4...WALLAC::MACKELPRANGWho R UThu Jul 30 1987 16:5420
    Re. .1
    
    Thanks a lot.  I've used it to unpack many files already.

    Re. .2

    USENET is a network that consists of conferences of people all around the 
    world.  Amiga info, source files, and binary files are just three of the
    MANY available.

    For more info, read notes 22, 181, 204, and 537 in this conference.  Also,
    do an ADD ENTRY ROLL::USENET to your notesfile.  Then you can get more
    info from that notesfile.

    USENET has been down for a while, but I believe everything will
    be back to normal by next monday (Aug. 3).
    
    Hope this helps.

    Mark.