Commit b9b813f7 authored by Kevin Lyda's avatar Kevin Lyda 💬
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More discussion in the README.

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@@ -59,6 +59,11 @@ make the repo. A number of things had to be done to get them ready for
a proper historical source code archive.  The commit logs for this repo
cover those steps, but to explain in a bit more detail:

### Dependencies

The shell snippets assume zsh (the `**/*.ext` idiom gets used a lot).
Need a `gcc` toolchain.  Need the `unzip` and `zoo` utilities.

### File conversions

Some files are in VMS record formats.  These are handled by
@@ -74,6 +79,26 @@ into mbox files.
Within the zip files there are sometimes other archive files.
These had to be extracted.

For .zoo files:

```
for f in **/*.zoo; do
  (cd ${f%\/*} && zoo -extract ${f##*\/} && git rm ${f##*\/});
done
```

For .zip files:

```
for f in **/*.zip; do
  (cd ${f%\/*} && unzip ${f##*\/} && git rm ${f##*\/});
done
```

### General cleanup

  * Removed exe and obj files: `git rm **/*.{exe,obj}`

### Committing to the BULLETIN git repo

To get the right dates and authors in git, need to tweak these environment