#: 9731 S1/General Interest
    08-Mar-91  15:16:48
Sb: #9723-#Help with ar
Fm: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
To: Dale Toyne 76304,2104 (X)

Hi Dale.  You already got the hard part done.  Now set the file permissions on
Ar, so that OS-9 will let you load, run, and/or delete it:

 attr /d1/ar e pe w

You might also want to copy it to your CMDS dir.  Or just load it with a full
pathname, like

 load /d1/ar

Okay, once you get it loadable, then you need to know how to use it... which is
the semi-complicated part.  Basically, you CHD to the directory where you want
the broken-out files to end up.  For example, let's say you downloaded sterm.ar
to drive 0.  First, make sure it has the ".ar" extension on the filename.  Now,
if you wanted to break it out to drive 1, you'd say:

 chd /d1               <== where files will go
 ar -x /d0/sterm       <== where sterm.ar is now

All the files will be de-archived to /d1. Ignore any "archive" errors; they're
probably due to xmodem padding adding junk to the file and confusing ar.  You
can also do an "ar -t /d0/sterm" and check what files are in an archive first,
if you wish.  Yell if need help.
 - kev

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