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>    What can anyone tell me about uuencoding?  What's it used for, how to
> de-uuencode, etc.  Thanks.
>
>                                                        - Derek
 
In short, uucode was developed so that computers that use different
character code sequences could transmit binary data between them.
I.E., an EBCDIC computer can transmit a GIF file to one that speaks
ASCII without "munging" the data (hopefully, that is).  It is used
prevelantly in news to transmit binary files (pics, programs, etc.)
all over.  These days, many news and mail feeds are only 7-bit and
uucoding allows 8 bit data to be transmitted over 7-bit lines.
 
On the VAX, type:
$ UUDECODE filename.UUE /VAXBIN
for binary files that will be downloaded to a PC.  Take note that all
mail/news headers and trailers must be removed from the file, and the
file (if a multi-part coded file) must be concatenated in order.  Part
1, part 2, ...  There is a semi-smart sorter available on MCUG that
will remove headers and trailers, but all parts of a file must be
concatenated into one first.  I do not know if it has been ported to
OCEAN yet, and I no longer have the source.
 
For more help, type:
$ HELP EXTENSIONS UUDECODE
on V1 or MIAVX1.
 
On OCEAN, the parameters are different (just found out).  Type
$ HELP UUDECODE
 
John
--
Drivel of the year:
"...DOS is utterly unable to handle more than 1MB of memory.  Removing
this limitation from DOS would result in something that just _isn't_
DOS any more--it wouldn't run existing DOS programs." -PC Mag, Nov 23,
1993.
---> OS/2? - what DOS could have been and would like to be.