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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> Lines: 27 Sender: news@newshost.anu.edu.au 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