nather@ut-sally.UUCP (Ed Nather) (10/18/86)
In article <239@cblpe.UUCP>, jrm@cblpe.UUCP (John Miller) writes: > Sorry to be so ignorant, but people are putting ".com" and ".exe" > files into a special format for the purpose of transmisson. The form is: > > > > begin 644 doggie.com > M_+P``:$"`(S+*\/VQ/!T!;C__^L$L033X*/Y(RT4*G(%/0`!<RRZ6"/IN@#[ > . > . > . > end > > How do I make this an executable file again? The file has been encoded with "uuencode" so it can pass through systems that only transmit 7 bit codes. To recover the original files so encoded, feed the file (with any message headers & trailers removed) to the program "uudecode." Copies of both "uuencode" and "uudecode" are available in net.sources which run on Vaxen with Unix, MS-DOS machines, and maybe others. -- Ed Nather Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin {allegra,ihnp4}!{noao,ut-sally}!utastro!nather nather@astro.AS.UTEXAS.EDU