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- From: wvenable@algona.stats.adelaide.edu.au (Bill Venables)
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- Subject: Re: |STAT now available via anonymous ftp
- Message-ID: <WVENABLE.92Aug15142816@algona.stats.adelaide.edu.au>
- Date: 15 Aug 92 04:58:16 GMT
- References: <1992Aug13.061250.3960@cis.ohio-state.edu>
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- In-reply-to: perlman@cis.ohio-state.edu's message of 13 Aug 92 06:12:50 GMT
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- >>>>> "Perlman" == Gary Perlman <perlman@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:
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- Perlman> To unpack the archive, you need uudecode, crypt, uncompress, and tar.
- Perlman> To ensure that the distribution restrictions on |STAT are maintained,
- Perlman> a password has been attached to the archive.
- Perlman> To obtain the password from me, you must send me a message with:
- Perlman> I AGREE TO ADHERE TO THE CONDITIONS OF USING |STAT.
- Perlman> I AGREE THAT I WILL NOT SHARE THE |STAT PASSWORD WITH OTHERS.
- Perlman> After obtaining the file, which you can also request from me via email,
- Perlman> you should run the following commands:
- Perlman> uudecode < stat.tar.Z.crypt.uu
- Perlman> crypt < stat.tar.Z.crypt > stat.tar.Z
- Perlman> uncompress stat.tar.Z
- Perlman> tar xvf stat.tar
-
- Just a couple of neutral comments.
-
- uuencoding is not necessary for files transferred by remote ftp, so long as
- "binary" mode is set during transmission.
-
- I suppose it is well known that the "crypt" facility is still an illegal
- export from the US and (in theory) should not exist on any machine outside
- the US. So persons like me outside the US intending to get |STAT this way
- will need first to get an account somewhere inside the US, remote login to
- it, ftp it there first, decrypt it there, re-ftp it home and so on. But if
- that's the deal, then I guess that's the deal.
-
- The last two lines above can be done as one without explicit uncompressing:
-
- zcat stat.tar.Z | tar xvf -
-
- You can sometimes avoid discs overflowing and write failures this way.
-
- wnv.
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