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- From: alpha@wyvern.twuug.com (Joe Wright)
- Subject: Re: C128/CPM FILES ON GCR FORMAT TO CPM MFM FORMAT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.173542.11627@wyvern.twuug.com>
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- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 17:35:42 GMT
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- aq743@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (William P. Maloney) writes:
- :
- : I received some CPM files from LISTSERV@VM1.NODAK.EDU. They are
- : binary-uuencoded files. I uudecoded them to ????????.LIB files, and
- : ????????.ark files. I didn't have any trouble de-arcing the 'ark' files,
- : but can't find any program for the 'lib' files. Can someone help me out
- : on this?
- :
- : In fact the index of the CPM/C128 archived files have a number of
- : tails that are unfamiliar to me e.g., .dzc,.aqm,.rsx,.irv,.rsp, etc....
- : Also, since I downloaded these files into a GCR CBM formatted disk what do
- : I have to do to get these on my MFM CPM disk?
-
- I suggest the LIB files are probably LBR files. You will need something
- like LU or NULU to extract their members. .?z? files are crunched. Use
- UNCRUNCH on them. ?q? files are squeezed. Use USQ on them. Dunno about
- the others.
-
- I don't know about the C128 GCR -> MFM conversion but stay tuned.
- Somebody here will tell you. There is more than one C128 out there.
-
- --
- Joe Wright alpha@wyvern.twuug.com
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