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From: Mark Janney-P26816 <Mark_Janney-P26816@email.mot.com>
Subject: Re: unpacking JAR file
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Karl Lieberherr asks:
KL> How do I unpack this report?
KL> Please can you send me a UNIX shell script.

Looking at the contents of your reply, it appears that the JAR file was
uuencoded for transmission. I didn't do this explicitly. It was done on
my behalf by some mailer in the path between me and you. Sorry :-(

Here is the process for unpacking the report.

1) Save the original mail into a file say 'maj.report'
   (In your reply, all of the lines were prefixed with '>'
2) Run the following commands

   uudecode maj.report
   jar xvf elaboration.jar

   When I did this on my workstation, I got the message 'No end line' from
   uudecode. However the encoded file was extracted correctly.

3) This will create a subdirectory 'elaboration' in your current
   directory. 'elaboration' will hold the contents of my report:
     Design.ps
     DomainModel.ps
     Requirements.ps
     Status.txt

   A directory 'meta-inf' will also be created in your current directory
   It contains the manifest from the jar file.

Notes:

  'uuencode' and 'uudecode' are standard Unix facilities for sending
  binary files over communication lines that don't support 8 bit
  characters. Each byte of the binary file is encoded as a pair of 7
  bit ascii character representing its value in hexidecimal.

  'jar' is the Java Archiver. It comes as part of the standard 1.1.x delivery.


Regards - Mark Janney