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From: "Kedar Patankar" <kedar@ccs.neu.edu>
To: "Karl Lieberherr" <lieber@ccs.neu.edu>
Subject: Re: unpacking JAR file
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>How do I unpack this report?

I guess the original message had .jar file attached as an uuencoded
attachment. It can be retrieved using pine(if you prefer text
based mail program) or Netscape Mail(if you want nicer front end).
There are other ways too. Eg. save the included portion of the file and then
use uudecode to get the original file back(I have never tried
this option).
>Please can you send me a UNIX shell script.
Once you have the .jar file ready ....


[dubhe: ~] > jar
Usage: jar {ctx}[vfm0M] [jar-file] [manifest-file] files ...
Options:
  -c  create new archive
  -t  list table of contents for archive
  -x  extract named (or all) files from archive
  -v  generate verbose output on standard error
  -f  specify archive file name
  -m  include manifest information from specified manifest file
  -0  store only; use no ZIP compression
  -M  Do not create a manifest file for the entries
If any file is a directory then it is processed recursively.
Example: to archive two class files into an archive called classes.jar:
  jar cvf classes.jar Foo.class Bar.class
Note: use the '0' option to create a jar file that can be put in your
CLASSPATH

So a typical command would be : -
"jar xf foo.jar"
>
>-- Karl

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