#xprbplus & Whap!
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Help, Betty! I took your advice regarding the xpr protocols. Seeing that I
didn't have any showing….I went back to my A-Talk III disk and installed
the xpr. However, all that was installed was "kermit." Using Disk Master
I could see that "bplus" was not in my libs: directory. So -I went to
Library 5 of AmigaUser (as you suggested), found the xprbplus.library and
SUCCESSFULLY downloaded it into my libs: directory A first for me — and it
was successful, too!!! However, when I look at my TRANSFER menu and look
at Protocols only Kermit is listed as an xpr fifile. Checking with Disk
Master I see that "bplus is listed in the Libs: directory — but it is not
listed as "bplus.library". Is that why it isn't reading in my
TRANSFER/Protocols? I must be doing something stupid, I'm sure. Also —
regarding Whap! I found that and all of its enhancements where you said I
would. Thank you. (I have Workbench 1.3) But — now that I found
it/them, where do I transfer it to on my hard disk? Are there docs on it?
I am sorry that I have all of these stupid questions for you. Thank you so
much for your patience and help. Always-Alan
It sounds like you didn't 'unpack' the archive containing the bplus xpr
library.
Most of the files on CIS are compressed archives which makes the files
smaller and allows all related files for a program to be transfered in a
single archive. You can tell which 'unpacking' program you need by looking
at the extension on the filename you downloaded.
If you downloaded a file called BPLUS.LHA or BPLUS.LZH, for example, you
would need to unpack that archive with LHA138.RUN (from library 16 of
AmigaUser). LHA138.RUN is a "self-extracting archive" and does not require
an 'unpacking' program. After downloading LHA138.RUN to RAM:, open a
shell, CD to RAM: and then enter-> LHA138.RUN. You'l see the doc files
and a program file called LHA. Copy LHA to your C: directory.
Then, to use LHA to unpack other programs (like BPLUS.LHA), open a shell,
cd to ram: or DF0: or wherever you want the files to end up, and type:
LHA -x x <filename.ext>
In the case of BPLUS.LHA, you'll end up with a file called
"xprbplus.library", which you can then copy to your Libs: directory.
BEWARE… AmigaDos .library names _are_ case sensitive. Do not alter the
case of the filename.
Help! I did what you suggested, Michael: I downloaded LHA138.RUN to RAM:,
opened a shell, CD to RAM: and then entered-> LHA138.RUN. However, after I
did that, I did NOT see the doc files or a program file called LHA.
Looking at RAM: with DiskMaster I can see a number of things listed, but no
icons to access them with. How do I do that? I did transfer (via
DiskMaster) what was listed as "LhA" over to my C: directory, but I
received a message saying "Unable to open archive." Do you know what I am
doing wrong???
There won't be any ICONS to help you move the files around.
AmigaDos would not give you a message of "Unable to open archive." when
you issued a COPY command.
Open a shell, make the shell window pretty large, and then type:
CD C:
DIR
Do you now see the LHA file in the C: directory?
If not, then you didn't get it copied. If you still have LHA138.RUN in ram
(and I do hope that you didn't download it under a different filename, and
that you did NOT use XMODEM – or if you did, you had AUTOCHOP enabled in
your comm program) then cd to RAM: and type LHA138.RUN. The type:
COPY LHA c:
Alan,
That file would have been compressed, as are almost all of our files. Look
at the original file name and see what the last three letters are. They
are probably either .LHA or .LZH. For either of those, you need a file
from Library 16 of AmigaUser called LHA138.RUN. This one is a
self-dissolving archive, so you can just put it on a disk and then type its
name and it will unpack itself to that disk. Next, copy the LHA file from
the disk to your c: directory. Then, you can unpack your bplus library by
typing:
cd libs:
lha e bplus.lha (or lzh)
Once you have done this, and it is working, you can delete the bplus.lzh or
whatever from your libs: directory, because you only need the
xprbplus.library file in there. And once you have this library in your
libs: directory, the bplus protocol should show up on your ATALKIII menu.
Betty