The full MG distribution is about 800 K in size.  Since it's
impractical to put all that data on an 880 diskette once you add
icons, an Amiga MG executable, and so on, the support files for
systems other than the Amiga were made into tar files and then
compressed using the Unix compress(1) program.  This file contains
some pointers on how to unpack them again.

The versions of compress and tarsplit in :c are taken from
earlier Fish disks; if you want/need the sources, they're on
disks somewhere in the range 49-52.  Uncompress is really a copy
of compress.b14 from the aforementioned distribution; it's
called uncompress here because it looks at its name to see what
to do, and we want it to uncompress files.  I compressed the
files sys.tar and tty.tar on a 4.3 BSD Unix system using the
commands

	compress -b 14 sys.tar
	compress -b 14 tty.tar

and no problem uncompressing them on my 512K Amiga with
compress.b14 (renamed to uncompress).  256K Amiga owners may be
out of luck.

The following commands are basically a log of what I did to
unpack the compressed tar files on my system.  Your mileage may
vary depending on road and weather conditions :-).  It assumes
that mg1b: is in DF0:, and that you don't mind swapping disks to
get to all the commands used.

	path add mg1b:c				; for uncompress/tarsplit
	format drive df1: name "OtherSystems"	; format a new disk

	; create and unpack the sys directory
	makedir DF1:sys				; make sys directory
	copy MG1b:mg1b/sys/sys.tar.Z DF1:sys	; copy tar file	
	cd DF1:sys				; go there
	uncompress sys.tar.Z			; uncompress it
	tarsplit sys.tar			; unpack it
	delete sys.tar				

	; similarly for the tty directory
	makedir DF1:tty
	copy MG1b:mg1b/tty/tty.tar.Z DF1:tty
	cd DF1:tty
	uncompress tty.tar.Z
	tarsplit tty.tar
	delete tty.tar

Have fun,

--mic--

