Hi !

all programs, held in /soft/acorn/riscos are in UNIX-compatible .tar.Z form
( except: archivers are not archived and new Files in News are in the Form
the come from usnet (e.g. from comp.binaries.acorn) )
Filetypes and correct names are hold in obey-files named settypes and nameslist
 
The simple !x-scripts allows you, to extract this .tar.Z files from desktop:

you must load the fpemulator and the clib, compress requires 500 KB next-memory
copy the archive as $.archive.x_tar-Z to $.archive

If you don't like !x, or !x fails, you can extract the archives with compress,
tar, settype and run commands. ( look in !x.commands.!extract how !x do it )
 
so long 
MUFTI

ps:
  my boss decided, that the commercial !spark-archiver should be not supported.

Here is a Indexfile for all programs for Acorn Archimedes under RISCOS
with information about binary mode or not is requered to transfer it.

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WARNING
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Without information about binary mode or ascii mode the transfer damage some
file.
You find this information in /soft/acorn/how2transfer
Most files are archived in UNIX-compatible .tar.Z form ( produced by !x )

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!format        multitasking format program

!lineedit      a commandline editor

compress       unixcomatible compress-program
               { ported by Frank Lancaster } 
tar            unixcompatible tar-program 
               { ported by Frank Lancaster }
!sparkplug1    a archive-extractor 
               {by David Pillings}
!sparkplug2    a archive-extractor, you need it for Toals-Tex 
               {by David Pillings}
!pcdir         MSDOS-Disk-reader and writer
               { by keith sloane }
!dosfs         MSDOS-Disk-reader and writer
               { by rob Schrauwen }    
tla            small macro-assembler producing
               AOF-fileformat or absolute-fileformat
               { by Frank Lancaster }
!x             simple enviromentscripts for tar and compress
               { by MUFTI }
gawk           a language/UNIX-tool especially for scripts and textprocessing
               incompatible to orginal awk I think
               { by the GNU-assocation ported by Paul Moore}
texinfo        you need this file to print some manuals with tex
               ( eg gawk- and tla-manuals ) 
               { by the GNU-association } 
!forth         nonstandart forth interpreter/compiler 
               I think this software is incomplite (at least the dokumentation)
               {by mike ?}
!hope          hope interpreter ported by Mike Ben-Gershom
               This software is also incomplite
               { ported by Mike Ben-Gershomfrom }          
!stronged      a editor 
               { by Guttorm "armstrong" Vik }
c2asm.example  example how to call TLA-assembler from C
               { by Frank Lancaster }
PathName       a utility like the pwd-command in UNIX
               { by S. Hickinbottom } 
rucp           a uucp-clone for Acorn Archimedes
               { ported by A. Raab }
iffile         a little utility starting a cli-command if a file exists  
               { by Nicko v. Someren } 
ed             editor for C-source-code  V.0.2 (not the unix-ed)
               { by C.T.Strech }     
!recursive     execute a command for present directory and all subdirectory
               if no error occurs ( obeyfiles must end with *quit )
               { script by MUFTI, uses Gawk and PathName }
ufn_rofn.c     example how to convert unix-filenames in riscos-filenames
               { by Steven van Aarldt }
forthdemo      nonstandart forth-interpreter-demo, (fileoperations disabled (except pipes ))
               requires normally malloc and RMAfree ( I hav'nt it yet (sorry))
               { by Dave Redman }
rap084         rap V.084 seriell terminal/ascii-/xmodem-transferprogram 
               { by david Caughley }
exshar         unpacks a unix shar file
               { by S. van Aardt }
unixlib        library of unix-compatible C-calls V 2.1 
               { by H.Rogers }
eval           calculator like the basic print-command
               { by R. Loyd } 
find           findutility 
               { by steve van Aardt } 
unzip          extractor for Zip-files
               { ported by steve van Aardt }
arc            extractor for Arc-files
               { ported by david pillings }
bugview        print debugmessages in C to a extra screen
               { by nicko van someren } 
Submit-Extract Archiver for the newsgroup comp.binaries.acorn
               { by Phillip Colmer }
               WARNING: Works only with CLIB366, which is not PD
unixextract    awk-script for work under UNIX which works like !Extract
               { by Phillip Colmer } 
ptc            Pascal to Acorn C converter
               { by G.Toal } 
correctnames   use the nameslist-file of !x with gawk under unix
               { by MUFTI }
killcr         little example how to remove carriage-return with gawk
               { by MUFTI }
setdir         change directory from desktop
               {by guttorm Vik} 
vkiller        kills the extend-virus
               {by R. Llyod}
toedit         loads a file into the acornsoftware !edit
               {by R. Mokay}
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We want to public PD/Freesoft/Shareware-files for education on Acorn Archimedes:

useful utilities
compiler/interpreter
editors
files with information about programming
....

If possible, we want a update of PD-Forth and PD-Hope.

if you know a server with such programs mail to

zrzm0111@helpdesk.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (internet)
or
zrzm at ds0rus1i (bitnet)

note: we have no janet-access....

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