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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

3016.0. "Using Amiga Sources & Binaries" by WPOMM2::ZAMBOTTI () Thu Oct 12 1989 22:12

    Whats a shell archive and how do I use it ?
    
    Now dont say put it through "sh".  I can read that in the source.
    
    What "sh" ?  The Amiga "sh" ?  Or does the source need to be copyied to
    a Unix system ?

    I notice some references to sed in the sources so I can only assume
    they need to be copied to a Unix system.
    
    Once you have it there do you do this :
    
    	cat source | sh
    
    or
    
    	sh source

    Once you have run them thru "sh" on the Unix system how do you get the
    binaries over to an Amiga system (sources are no worries) ?  What
    communications protocol is easiest (and most avaliable) to use between
    these two systems.
    
    Sorry you have to spell it all out !
    Walter Zambotti
    Perth Western Australia.
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3016.1sh=SHAR ????SALEM::LEIMBERGERFri Oct 13 1989 04:1013
    I wonder id sh means shell or shar.Back when I first got my amiga
    and usenet was healthy,many files came over shard.The way it worked
    was the binaries were uuencoded to transform them into ascii.Then
    they were run thru shar.what shar did was append all the files into
    one file that could be mailed over usenet.upon reciept of thes files
    you would:
    shar -u filename  /* break the file into its individual parts
    uud filename      /*convert binaries from text back to binaries
    	uue,and uud are good for converting files when you have to mail
    them,as opposed to transferring them.Shar.UUE,UUD are available
    for both the vax,and amiga.Of course with the absence of uesnet
    on the vax's they are not used much today.
    						bill
3016.2USENET is quite alive thank you.STARCH::WHERRYSerious WeirdnessFri Oct 13 1989 11:5833
>    I wonder id sh means shell or shar.Back when I first got my amiga

	shar archive.  on a unix system type:
              % /bin/sh mumble-frotz 
        where mumble-frotz is the name of the file.

>    and usenet was healthy,many files came over shard.The way it worked
>    was the binaries were uuencoded to transform them into ascii.Then
>    they were run thru shar.what shar did was append all the files into
>    one file that could be mailed over usenet.upon reciept of thes files
>    you would:
>    shar -u filename  /* break the file into its individual parts
>    uud filename      /*convert binaries from text back to binaries

       uuencoding and uudecoding are used to send BINARY files through the
mail and through USENET.  You DON'T have to uuencode ascii text files to
send them.  In fact most of the comp.sources.* groups don't uuencode the
sources file (well the ones I get don't.)

>    	uue,and uud are good for converting files when you have to mail
>    them,as opposed to transferring them.Shar.UUE,UUD are available
>    for both the vax,and amiga.Of course with the absence of uesnet
>    on the vax's they are not used much today.
                                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

huh???  I am reading news on a vax running VMS, from a VAX running ultrix
(but with only a DECNET connection).  Trust me, USENET is quite alive and
well.  ARKHAM (my server) recieved 3000 new articles yesterday.  and there
were over 100 connections to read news.

>    						bill