Binary Programs on Info-Iris

[Mark Callow]

In article <9009201522.AA00565@>, lmo at lsr-vax.UUCP ("Lance M. Optican - LMO")
writes:
|> 
|> Who is Paul Haeberli, and why does he give away
|> all those nifty programs in binary?
Paul is a Principle Engineer in our research group and he gives away all those
swell programs because he's a nice guy.

|> 
|> It would be a big help to us mere mortal programmers
|> if instructions were included on extracting and
|> running such programs.

Save the article in a file somewhere and issue the command

	uudecode <somewhere>

uudecode creates a new file which is the executable binary.  Read the uudecode
man page for more details.  The executable binary extracted by uudecode is
ready to run.
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