keithe@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson) (09/26/88)
In article <1921@spdcc.COM> eli@spdcc.COM (Steve Elias) writes: >>the docs for Procomm 2.4.2 follow in next message in UUENCODE format. > > ...200k of documentation that is available elsewhere. > i downloaded the file and my uudecode barfed on it. > Ummm, this was one of the more interesting uudecode challenges to come down the pike for a while! As I recall, I had to do the following to extract the stuff: Delete the first couple of lines that appear to be some kind of a translation table. Remove the last character of every line (always lowercase alphabetic characters (Optionally) change all of the embedded blanks to ` (back- quote) characters. Download to MS-DOS machine (binary mode if using a file transfer program - but I use PC-NFS so it's all transparent) Use Richard Mark's UUDECODE. (Another version may work; but this one is _the_ _best_.) Find someplace to stash it all. Ruminate on what uuencode program could've created such an archive... keith