Description: Utility package for new users of file archives Keywords: amiga utility package Author: Kimmo.Ketolainen@utu.fi Uploader: Kimmo.Ketolainen@nic.funet.fi Uploaded-to: nic.funet.fi (940203) Handled-by: Kimmo.Ketolainen@ftp.funet.fi [The archive file is in DMS format to ease the process of extracting the contents to disks of new users. -- Kimble.] The FUNET Package ================= This is a starters' package for all new users of FTP archives on the Internet. It contains the needed programs to transfer files to the Amiga and to extract them. The package is especially handy for those who do not have a modem on their Amiga, or if the Amiga is not networked. Some knowledge of the Amiga is needed to use these programs. Executable files were compressed to fit all files to 880k. Documentation for programs is in the "docs" directory. Included in the package is: I. Copying files to the Amiga via a PC computer MSH MSDOS filesystem (read and write 720k PC disks on Amiga) MultiDos MSDOS filesystem (read and write 720k PC disks on Amiga) II. Extracting files on the Amiga DMS Extracts DMS whole disk archives (.DMS) gzip Uncompresses GNU zip files (.gz) LhA Extracts LhA file archives (.lha) unzip Extracts Zip file archives (.zip) Zoo Extracts Zoo file archives (.zoo) Zoom Extracts Zoom whole disk archives (.zom) III. Handling special files join Join files splitted in parts split Split files into parts unshar Unshar shar files uudecode Decode uuencoded 7-bit text files to binary files uuencode Encode binary files to 7-bit text files (for sending via e-mail) uujoin Join and decode multipart uuencoded 7-bit text files IV. Transferring files via a modem NComm VT100 terminal emulator with Zmodem and Kermit protocols 940203 Kimmo.Ketolainen@nic.funet.fi