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- From: cust_ts@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tero Sand)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Those .tar.Z files!! And what they produce (DDos in particular)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.120617.9525@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 12:06:17 GMT
- References: <1992Jul23.095042.28241@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- Lines: 38
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- In article <1992Jul23.095042.28241@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> bp664@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Grover Thomas) writes:
- >
- >I have been struggling with an older file fro a couple hours now,
- >and I think it's time to "ask the net".
- >
- >I ftp'ed the file ddos.tar.Z from f.ms.uky.edu (yes, I used binary
- >transfer). On my unix site I was able to uncompress the thing
- >to the resulting file ddos.tar and eventually un-tarred it using
- >tar -xf ddos.tar
- >
- >which resulted in a directory ddos and four files: ddos1 ddos2
- >ddos3 and ddos4.
- >
- >
- >Okay, now I have downloaded the four files to my GS at home. The files
- >are in binary format, but upon viewing them they seem to be some sort
- >of self extracting thingie. THis is what it looks like:
- >
- >CALL-151
- >E00:38 A5 FF D0 32 D8 20 8E FD AD 30 BF 8D 6A 0E 20 00 BF C7 6D 0E 0D 80 02
- >E18:D0 1D 20 00 BF C5 69 0E B0 15 AD 81 02 29 0F AA E8 8E 80 02 A9 2F 8D 81
- >E30:02 20 00 BF C6 6D 0E A2 08 B0 0E 20 00 BF C3 70 0E B0 06 A2 26 20 53 0E
- >E48:AA 20 53 0E 4C D0 03 20 ED FD E8 BD 59 0E D0 F7 60 A0 F3 E1 F6 E5 E4 8D
- [cut]
-
- >Anyway, I cannot figure out what to do to extract this file on
- >my GS. Brunning it tells me "Buffers Not Available".
- >
- >Help, what am I supposed to do?? (I suspect it may be a DOS 3.3
- >program and not ProDOS. Am I correct?)
-
- Don't know what it is, but you should EXECute them ("-" works too).
- First, however, you should change the file type to TXT.
- --
- -Tero Sand
- EMail: cust_ts@cc.helsinki.fi Snail mail: Auroran Sairaala os. 6-1
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