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0 pointssimonh6y ago0 comments

Yep and the Shar command that created a bash wrapper round sections of uuencoded data, so you could email a file in segments and conveniently recompose and run it to get the file back, without needing Shar at the other end. Good times.

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derriz6y ago

That brings back memories. Of using an email gateway to get an Amiga fred fish disk - delivered as shar pieces to my uni email account (only staff had telnet, ftp, etc. access). Then assembling the pieces in /tmp on the departmental unix server. Then switching to a PC to use Kermit to get the contents onto a PC floppy. Then using an Amiga utility to be able to read PC format disks to copy them to an Amiga floppy.

I've no memeory of what motivated me to spend so much time just to be able to view some low-res, low-fps 3 second video clip, listen to 8-bit tracker "tunes" and try out some free application that invariably crashed the machine after a minute or two of use.

phs318u6y ago

> I've no memeory of what motivated me to spend so much time ...

I do :)

It was the wonder of doing something for the first time. Of feeling like you were pioneering and learning and having fun all at the same time.

Truly, fun times :)

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