On Sat, 12 Aug 2006, Frank Barknecht wrote:
Interesting. I downloaded the stuff from ftp://arts.ucsc.edu/pub/ems/lobjects/source/ but it is in some funky format: Looking inside it with "cat" it seems to contain C source code, but it's wrapped in some binary junk, probably some poisonous Apple juice. Does anybody know, how this can be made into proper textfiles on Linux?
Download all using: wget -r ftp://arts.ucsc.edu/pub/ems/lobjects/source/
Then run the following Ruby program that I just wrote:
Dir["*.bin"].each {|fn| data = File.read(fn) n=data.index("\0",128) File.open(fn.gsub(/.bin$/,""),"w") {|f| f.write data[128...n] } }
Or download the result from http://artengine.ca/matju/Lobjects-src.tar.gz
BTW: I could not find a decoder for it, nor a name for the format, and people on the #macosx channel didn't know what it is.
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