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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Path: sserve!manuel!coombs!greg
From: greg@coombs.anu.edu.au (Greg Price)
Subject: Re: OS Boot Select 1.32 - yet another boot menu program
Message-ID: <greg.712669684@coombs>
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Organization: Computer Services Centre, Australian National University
References: <Y4K52MP@mailgzrz.tu-berlin.de> <1992Jul30.165820.2328@tfs.com> <R8L5P9M@mailgzrz.tu-berlin.de>
Date:  1 Aug 92 11:48:04 GMT

wolfaajj@w250zrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de (Thomas Wolfram) writes:

>In article <1992Jul30.165820.2328@tfs.com>, julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer) writes:
>|> could you post a UUENCODED version? What is LHA?

>This *is* a uuencoded version. This is a uuencoded self-extracting
>LHA archiv for DOS. LHA is a DOS compress utility (should be known to many
>DOS users) but since its self-extracting if you run it (under DOS) this
>is indifferent.

>|> It looks like uuencode, but uudecode won't touch it.

>Hmm. That makes me wonder. Just now I saved the posting with the
>uuencoded file to a file "xyz" and typed:

>uudecode xyz

>and got os-bs132.exe with exactly 29876 bytes back. I never had
>problems with the local uu[en|de]code here. But I've put the
>file to ftp.fu-berlin.de to /incoming.

I saved it and tried it tonight, works fine (I'm using it for DOS and 386BSD),
another handy piece of code.

Greg