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Date:	Sat, 27 Jul 2002 10:07:01 PST7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com, scoug-programming@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: books online (OT)

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Cross-posted out of sheer nastiness. :)))
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A Slashdot forum pointed me at this newsgroup:

alt.binaries.e-book.technical

Some neat stuff on various technologies that OS/2 uses like TCP/IP and
Java (though no OS/2 books, at least not right now).

You download a single file containing all the sections of all the books
you want, then run uudeview which will recreate all the .zip/.rar files:

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/archiver/uudeview-0.5.17-os2.zip

You can run uudeview with just the file name and no other parameters.
For example, if you save a whole bunch of book sections in a file named
LotsOfBooks.news then you would run:

C>uudeview LotsOfBooks.news

Uudeview extracts the various files and then stops with a rather cryptic
prompt (something like "d ?"). Type ? for a help screen or just enter
"d" to actually save the extracted .zip/.rar files. If you _don't_ do
this the extracted files won't be saved to your hard drive!

Once you have the .zip/.rar files I'm sure you can handle the rest of
the process. :)

I haven't checked this newsgroup's archive on Google News. Since the
files I saved were inline and not attachments, Google News might save
them in its archives.

Glad I have DSL . . .

- Peter

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