<> *4@5 GETTING THINGS FROM A PC ON THE NET TO YOU AMIGA IN ONE PIECE! *3]5@4 by GTE / A51 *1]1 @1 I was just wondering what to write for my first article the other day when it dawned on me that I could write a comprehensive guide about getting stuff from the Internet/Aminet back onto my beloved Amiga from a PC. So here goes! @6 Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/Z/@1 *3@2REQUIREMENTS:*1@1 ]3 One Amiga (with a hard drive) A PC on the net Loads of disks CrossDOS (or equivilent) Archiving utilities (included!) ]1 First I will describe the steps that I go through to get stuff off the Aminet. Various utilities are described here, and they should be included on one of the disks in a directory called ]5!SAUCE!]1. These are all shareware, so check out the authors. If they are not here (lack of space. etc.) then you can get them off me from my E-Mail address or from Slade. Okay, here are the eleven simple steps: ]31.]1 You first need some way to get the files from the PC to your Amiga. For this I use CrossDOS (which I got with Workbench 3.0). If you don't have it, it was available on a magazine coverdisk a while ago (I cannot remember which one), and there are also some PD alternatives available (check your local PD library!). ]32.]1 Use CrossDOS to format about ten (or as many as you need!) disks to PC format 720K, or 1440K if your Amiga has a High Density disk drive. ]33.]1 Next, create a directory somewhere on the PC to store all the stuff. All the stuff must be in the same directory for the archiving to work easily. ]34.]1 Download all your stuff from the Aminet or wherever and make sure it all goes into your directory. ]35.]1 When you have finished downloading, go to a DOS prompt and CD into your directory. ]36.]1 Use PC "LHA.EXE" to archive all the files into one huge LHA file. For example, use this syntax: @5 LHA A *.*@1 This will archive every file in this directory (the files don't have to be LHA, they can be DMS, IFF ...whatever!). [4 ]37.]1 Now you have one large LHA file and a load of 720K (or 1440K) disks. The next step is to delete all the other archives (to save space!). ]38.]1 Now use the PC utility "SPLIT" on the archive, specifying the size 720000. When the program has finished crunching away, you now have a load of 720K files all named .001, .002, etc. ]39.]1 Use Filemanager or whatever and copy the archives to your PC disks. (If you have a HD drive, then copy two onto each disk). 10. Now copy The files back onto your Amiga and use the AmigaDOS "Join" command to join the archive back together. Eg: @5 Join .001 .002 .003 .004 as archive.lha @1 ]311.]1 Then simply unLhA the big LhA and... Et Viola! You have all your original archives! This may seem to you like a waste of time, etc. But it has proved very useful for me. For example on many occasions I have downloaded a file from the Internet and it has been something like 830K or something and this cannot fit on a PC low density disk. So by using this method I eliminate wasted disk space by fitting as much as is humanly possible on each disk and am, therefore, able to bring more things home for my Amiga to play with! @3[Yeah, I've used this method you bring you the Cyberia demo review. This demo was 2.3megs in size. I did find a little problem though, when splitting the files up. I had to use smaller splits as two 720000's would not fit on one HD disk. Although this is due to the disks being old, new disks should be okay. Cheers for the tip GTE! - Slade] @1 Okay, that's me done with, until next time... BYEEE! (Oh, and visit my web page, the counter needs a boost!) *3@5 E-Mail: atomicrevs@usa.net UNDERNET IRC: GTE WWW: members.tripod.com/~gte *1@4 [As usual the files to accompany this tutorial can be found in the !SALT_N_VINEGAR! directory on none of the diskz. Or, then again, they may be in the !SAUCE! directory ...or is that just being STUPID! zYLAX!]