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You'll get a "save file to" prompt.
o Type: filename (or a full pathname)
In Pine:
o Type: s
You'll be asked for a folder name. Pine's 'folder' is a text file.
o Type: filename (or a full pathname)
To uudecode a file:
o Type: uudecode filename
This may change the resulting file's name.
To uncompress a file:
For a .Z (Unix compress) file:
o Type: uncompress filename
For a .gz (GZip) file:
o Type: gunzip filename
Sometimes a number of files will come packed together in a .zip or
.tar file. You need to unzip or untar it. You will end up with a
number of files.
For a .zip file:
o Type: unzip filename
For a .tar file:
o Type: tar -xvf filename
To just read the contents of a .tar file:
o Type: tar -tvf filename
o On a DOS machine, to uncompress a .Z file, you'll need comp430d from:
-> Host: oak.oakland.edu
Path: pub/msdos/compress
File: comp430d.zip
URL: ftp://oak.oakland.edu/pub/msdos/compress/comp430d.zip
To uuencode a file, use the following syntax at the prompt:
The uuencode The file you Writes resulting uuencoded
command. want to uuencode. file to the last filename.
| | |
uuencode filename filename > filename
| |
Name to be put on the 'begin' line of the Name of the file that will be
resulting uuencoded file. This name will written to disk so as to not
be given to the file when it is uudecoded. overwrite the original file.
To compress a file:
For Unix compress:
o Type: compress filename
For Gzip:
o Type: gzip filename
To zip compress a number of files into one .zip file, use the following
syntax at the prompt:
zip filename.zip filename1 filename2 filename3
| | |______|______|
Command. Name for file. Files to be zipped, can be any number.
For info on viewing animations and color images, see Question 21.
21 How do I view animations and color images?
Type the name of the file where I have "filename". On a Unix
system, the process is usually as easy as: