Answer: Which are ST and Amiga Figlet versions

: In article <35q20u$p0...@gagme.wwa.com>, Ian Chai <cha...@chip.cs.uiuc.edu> wrote:
: >
: >
: >On ftp.isu.edu, in /pub/figlet/program/amiga, we have:
: >-rw-r--r--   1 simmdan  admin      76841 Sep 11 08:18 figlet2.1.1.lzh
: >-rw-r--r--   1 simmdan  admin      30387 Dec 23  1993 figlet2p0.lha
: >

I downloaded both of these. figlet2p0.lha is a working Amiga version
of Figlet. The same version I've been using for some time. But 
figlet2.1.1.lzh is a text file that uudecodes into figlet21.lzh which 
decompresses into an ST version of Figlet. Or at least so say the docs. 
As for the one in your Atari directory, I didn't attempt to deal with as 
I have no idea what to do with a xxxx.tgz file. I've worked with xxxx.gz
files that have been compressed with GNUzip, but .tgz is a new one on me.

From figlet.2.1.1.lzh:

From puu...@modeemi.cs.tut.fi Sun Sep 11 06:26:24 1994      
From: Eero Tamminen <puu...@modeemi.cs.tut.fi>              
Subject: Re: ST-Figlet2.1.1.lzh.uue                           
To: spe...@uiuc.edu (Ian Chai)                               
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 14:23:58 +0300 (EET DST)               
                                                              
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I hope this helps.

In article <35ur7j$h0...@gagme.wwa.com>,  <nos...@xmission.com> wrote:
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>I downloaded both of these. figlet2p0.lha is a working Amiga version
>of Figlet. The same version I've been using for some time. But 
>figlet2.1.1.lzh is a text file that uudecodes into figlet21.lzh which 
>decompresses into an ST version of Figlet. Or at least so say the docs. 
>As for the one in your Atari directory, I didn't attempt to deal with as 
>I have no idea what to do with a xxxx.tgz file. I've worked with xxxx.gz
>files that have been compressed with GNUzip, but .tgz is a new one on me.

   Well, we're getting somewhere.  Thanks.

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   OK, here is how the Figlet folder at the Scarecrow's FTP looks:

drwxr-xr-x  2 boba  ftp-admi   2048 Sep 23 10:12 Fonts
drwxr-xr-x  2 boba  ftp-admi    512 Sep  7 04:06 Utilities
-rw-r--r--  1 boba  ftp-admi  30387 Sep  7 04:12 figlet-amiga-2p0.lha
-rw-r--r--  1 boba  ftp-admi  76841 Sep 23 18:16 figlet-atarist.lzh
-rw-r--r--  1 boba  ftp-admi  55429 Sep  7 04:11 figlet-msdos.zip.uu
-rw-r--r--  1 boba  ftp-admi  87311 Sep  7 04:10 figlet-unix.tar.Z

   The first two are folders, and the rest are Figlet programs.  I think 
this is correct now.  If it is not, tell me, and I'll fix it.

   What I should probably do is go through all my FTP folders, and make 
sure everything is either plain text or uuencoded.  This way, people 
without FTP can use FTP mail servers.  It'll be necessary anyway when the 
automation is set up here.

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Bob Allison (bob...@wwa.com) wrote:
>    What I should probably do is go through all my FTP folders, and make 
> sure everything is either plain text or uuencoded.  This way, people 
> without FTP can use FTP mail servers.  It'll be necessary anyway when the 
> automation is set up here.

FTP-Mail servers will usually uuencode the file for you.  So, there's 
really no need for it to be uuencoded.

BTW:  You should put uuencoding into your automation... alot less work.  :-)

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Bob Allison (bob...@wwa.com) wrote:

: In article <35ur7j$h0...@gagme.wwa.com>,  <nos...@xmission.com> wrote:
: >
: >I downloaded both of these. figlet2p0.lha is a working Amiga version
: >of Figlet. The same version I've been using for some time. But 
: >figlet2.1.1.lzh is a text file that uudecodes into figlet21.lzh which 
: >decompresses into an ST version of Figlet. Or at least so say the docs. 
: >As for the one in your Atari directory, I didn't attempt to deal with as 
: >I have no idea what to do with a xxxx.tgz file. I've worked with xxxx.gz
: >files that have been compressed with GNUzip, but .tgz is a new one on me.

:    Well, we're getting somewhere.  Thanks.

  .tgz is just shorthand for .tar.gz (probably invented by someone
using ms-D'OH!s 8.3 filenames)

if your tar command supports it, -z will gunzip a file on the fly:

tar -zxvf xxxx.tgz

will do the trick.

otherwise,

mv xxxx.tgz xxxx.tar.gz
gunzip xxxx.tar
tar -xvf xxxx.tar

  Probably don't need all the fiddling with filenames, just said it to
make sure...

	Joe

nos...@xmission.com writes:
>I downloaded both of these. figlet2p0.lha is a working Amiga version
>of Figlet. The same version I've been using for some time. But 
>figlet2.1.1.lzh is a text file that uudecodes into figlet21.lzh which 
>decompresses into an ST version of Figlet. Or at least so say the docs. 
>As for the one in your Atari directory, I didn't attempt to deal with as 
>I have no idea what to do with a xxxx.tgz file. I've worked with xxxx.gz
>files that have been compressed with GNUzip, but .tgz is a new one on me.

Thanks!

Ian

nos...@xmission.com writes:

> As for the one in your Atari directory, I didn't attempt to deal with as 
> I have no idea what to do with a xxxx.tgz file. I've worked with xxxx.gz
> files that have been compressed with GNUzip, but .tgz is a new one on me.

.tgz is short for .tar.gz on systems where .tar.gz would make the
filename too long.  gzip and gunzip will unzip a .tgz into a .tar, then
you have to use tar (in UNIX, that's "tar xf filename.tar") to get
files out of it.

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