ssircar@ecs.umass.edu (11/22/89)
Can someone tell me where I can find a copy of UUD/ENCODE for the VAX/VMS and
the IBM PC? I would like to send a friend a few binary files. Unfortunately,
I can neither use FTP or BITNET's SEND/FILE command. Thanks.
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Santanu Sircar BITNET: ssircar@umaecs.bitnet
University of Massachusetts/Amherst INTERNET: ssircar@ecs.umass.edu
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"A pig ate his fill of acorns under an oak tree and then started to root
around the tree. A crow remarked, `You should not do this. If you lay bare
the roots, the tree will wither and die.' `Let it die,' said the pig. `Who
cares so long as there are acorns?'"
------------------------------------------------------------------------------brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) (11/26/89)
I am a bit disappointed that I have not seen more use of the ABE system that I posted here. ABE will generate uuencoded files and decode them, but it has a lot of advantages over the existing programs. You can handle the files in any order, and with duplicates, so that a person can just say dabe mailbox ; or dabe groupdir/* And expect the files to come out reliably, CRC'd and all. Plus if you use the ABE format instead of uuencode, it's smaller and text strings are readable in the encoding. -- Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473
) (11/27/89)
For those of you who sent me a copy of UUENCODE or UUDECODE, thanks.
Unfortunately, these programs have been sent in UUENCODE format. Since I don't
have it initially, I'm back to square one.
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Santanu Sircar BITNET: ssircar@umaecs.bitnet
University of Massachusetts/Amherst INTERNET: ssircar@ecs.umass.edu
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"A pig ate his fill of acorns under an oak tree and then started to root
around the tree. A crow remarked, `You should not do this. If you lay bare
the roots, the tree will wither and die.' `Let it die,' said the pig. `Who
cares so long as there are acorns?'"
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