Peck@RADC-MULTICS.ARPA (Rodney) (12/29/86)
Alright, I went and did it, I bought the developers kit, and that
Sybex book, now I know alot about gem. My first real program will be a
Desk accessory that does uudecoding in the background. The idea here is
that you would use kermit to transfer your file, and then pop down the
uudecode da, tell it what file you want to decode, and let it go. It
would do occasional timer events to keep things going, and decode the
file showing the line number & bytes output so far.
Since its a da, you can go back to kermit and transfer another file
while this is going on due to the "limited multitasking kernal".
Are there any features you all would like to see in this before I
start the serious coding? I plan to steal Paul Smee's code for the
actual uudecoding (with proper credit given)...it handels the missing
spaces and inserted nulls and those wacky "`"s.
A filled bar indicating how much of the input file has been read might
be nice (and in the gem spirit).
leave me some mail....
rodp@radc-multics.arpa (thru the wiscvm gateway for bitnet)
PS: As a registered developer, what am I entitled to as far as Gdos
goes? Also, what do I do with the disclosure statement???pes@bath63.ux63.bath.ac.uk (Paul Smee) (01/06/87)
Rod (and everyone else) please note that 'my' uudecode was only slightly modified by me to handle some pathological cases -- it owes its existence ultimately to at least 2 or 3 other people (mentioned in 'update' comments in the source) and possibly more before that. Unfortunately, my ST is home and my UUCP connection is at work, so I don't have the names handy. -=-- but if you put in credits, they should get first billing. (John Franco is one of them, I remember. Don't recall the other(s).)