silvert@dalcs.UUCP (Bill Silvert) (09/06/86)
In the discussion about uuencoded binaries vs. source, everyone seems to assume that we all have compatible compilers. We don't. For example, I have the Modula-2 developers' kit, which is very nice but doesn't do much of a job on C sources. I've had no problem with uuencoded files though -- I decode them on the Unix machine that is on the net and send the binaries down using xmodem or kermit. All the uudecodes that I have seen really seem written to run under Unix anyway, and maybe this is why they don't run OK on the ST. Sources for uudecode and xmodem have been posted to the net, and there are tons of PD xmodem packages for the ST (my favourite is xmdm.tos from the group at Case, via bammi, which is much more robust and reliable than the others I have tried). The time may be ripe for reposting of these sources, preferably with enough defines so that they will compile on any Unix engine (my versions are heavily hacked for specialized use on my machine and may not be very portable).