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- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: Copying files to floppy disks
- Path: sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!think.com!unixland!rmkhome!rmk
- From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 18:13:46 GMT
- Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Message-ID: <9209021314.00@rmkhome.UUCP>
- References: <9208280023.33@rmkhome.UUCP> <2852@monarch.array.com>
- Lines: 65
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- In article <2852@monarch.array.com> mike@array.com (Mike Willett) writes:
- >
- I said:
- >: And Coherent cat works just like UNIX cat.
- >: I have an internet account, but my method of getting sources from the
- >: internet to rmkhome is:
- >: 1. ftp source file
- >: 2. uuencode source file
- >: 3. split uuencoded file into 64k sized pieces
- >
- > A shell script called "split" should work nice here. In 4.0 you
- > should not have to split them. (Hopefully)
-
- Split is a standard UNIX command.
-
- >: 4. mail the pieces to myself at rmkhome
- >
- > You can also uucp them. Then you can skip step 5.
- > On a Sun (HDB)(at least) you can uuto them.
-
- Only if the permissions are set up for all the systems down the line.
-
- >: 5. edit the pieces to remove mail header and blank line at end of message
- >: 6. cat fileparts.xa? >filename.uue
- >
- > A shell script called join should work nice here too.. :)
-
- And a vi macro can do most of the work.
-
- >: 7. uudecode filename.uue
- >: 8. etcetera
- >:
- >: I've been doing this with Coherent since 3.1.0 without any problems.
- >: And I've been doing it with UNIX for around 10 years.
- >
- > In 64K chunks? Masochist! :)
-
- When you are forced to mail sources it is best to use 64k as the chunk,
- as that is the maximum supported by many mailers. Obviously, when I
- can I use UUCP to move the whole file at once.
-
- > Somebody want to tell me what real UNIX is? :) I have not
- > seen it in 12 years... :) I will vote for the candidate
- > (or alien) who will pledge to bring real Unix back! :)
- >
- > Anybody worked in real Unix prior to 1968? :) :) :)
-
- No such animal.
-
- >--
- > mike@array.com So much fun, so little time to enjoy it...
- >
- > System Administration: n, 1. Fixing yesterdays' problems
- > tomorrow.
- >--
- > mike@array.com So much fun, so little time to enjoy it...
- >
- > System Administration: n, 1. Fixing yesterdays' problems tomorrow.
-
-
- You'd better fix your news software. :-)
-
- --
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- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP unixland!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
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