slyster@questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lyster) (09/20/90)
Does anyone in the ST world know about sending ARC or LZH files via binary transfer, which is the equivolent of coding the ARC'ed file as ASCII text and then posting it as a "message"? Apparently sender needs to code the file appropriately, and the receiver must have the decoder... does anyone know of such a beast for the ST? If so, it might be made use of here!
steve@thelake.mn.org (Steve Yelvington) (09/20/90)
[In article <59qRP1w163w@questor.wimsey.bc.ca>,
slyster@questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lyster) writes ... ]
> Does anyone in the ST world know about sending ARC or LZH files via
>
> binary transfer, which is the equivolent of coding the ARC'ed file as
>
> ASCII text and then posting it as a "message"? Apparently sender
>
> needs to code the file appropriately, and the receiver must have the
>
> decoder... does anyone know of such a beast for the ST? If so, it
>
> might be made use of here!
Of course. Binary files are regularly transmitted in the proper
newsgroup (comp.binaries.atari.st), encoded into ASCII with the
standard ``uue'' program, which is available for the ST, PC and
most other machines.
C, executable binary and BASIC versions of the companion decoder are
available from the archive-server@panarthea.EBay.SUN.COM.
--
Steve Yelvington up at the lake in Minnesota
(moving soon to Marine on St. Croix)
steve@thelake.mn.org plains!umn-cs!thelake!steveboyd@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd) (09/20/90)
In article <59qRP1w163w@questor.wimsey.bc.ca>, slyster@questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lyster) writes: >Does anyone in the ST world know about sending ARC or LZH files via >binary transfer, which is the equivolent of coding the ARC'ed file as >ASCII text and then posting it as a "message"? Apparently sender >needs to code the file appropriately, and the receiver must have the >decoder... does anyone know of such a beast for the ST? If so, it >might be made use of here! It sounds like you need uue.ttp and uud.ttp. They are Atari binaries that mimic the Un*x uuencode and uudecode (used by UUCP). They convert binaries to slighly larger files consisting of only select ASCII characters (those which have an EBCDIC counterpart for one, so they can survive passage through an IBM gateway). These files can then be mailed (and also ASCII downloaded, if you don't have xmodem or kermit available). I believe I got mine via ftp from atari.archive some time ago. I have two different sets of binaries, one called uudecode/uuencode.ttp, the other uud/uue.ttp. The second set seems faster and more user friendly (IMHO). If you cannot find them, let me know and we can work something out. -- ---------------------------------+------------------------------------- Mickey R. Boyd | "God is a comedian playing to an FSU Computer Science | audience too afraid to laugh." Technical Support Group | email: boyd@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu | - Voltaire ---------------------------------+-------------------------------------
buggs@cup.portal.com (William Edward JuneJr) (09/23/90)
Could someone PLEASE mail me the UUE & UUD files? I have the the uudecode & uuecode.ttp files but they freak every once in a while, are the others better? Ed June