scott@max.u.washington.edu (11/16/89)
This message is to Roland and to everyone who will find the reading interesting. I am posting this message here because I lost Roland Bitnet/Internet address so I was unable to send him a direct E-mail. But I think the reading is of general interest.....so enjoy :) > From: IN%"Southern-Comfort@portal!cup.portal.com" 1-NOV-1989 20:53 > Date: Wed, 1-Nov-89 19:11:33 PST > > I'll be happy to get CBTerm6.7 to you any way I can. But I'm not on a > VAX system, and I know nothing about uuencoding. However, I have a disk > and a disk mailer! If you have a snail mail address. > Anyway, CBTerm's best feature is its use of overlays. For instance, it's > a nice program as it is, but you can get overlays to run punter, to > emulate VIDTEX software, to view various graphic formats (koala, RLE, etc). > Unfortunately nobody ever wrote an overlay to do scripts or Ymodem. > Anyway, let me know how to get it to you. And let me know about uuencoding > too, I've seen it mentioned but can't seem to locate a program to do it. > Take care > Roland Hello! Sorry for the very delayed response....somehow, I failed to read your mail before the system marked it as old mail. I was doing some deleting of my old mails listing, when I bump in to this mail that I couldn't remember what it was about......anyway, better late than never :) First of all, about your question in regards to UUENCODEing.... UUENCODE is a program available mostly in Unix system that allows a binary file (which consist of 8 bits characters) to be converted to a ASCII (or text) file (which consist of 7 bits characters). (The difference between 8 bits characters and 7 bits characters is not in the characters itself, but it is in the range of characters. By this I mean: An ASCII file contains characters that can be represented with 7 bits, or from 0 to 127, which are the alphanumberic characters plus some others; A binary file contains characters that can be represented with 8 bits, or from 0 to 255, which are all the characters that can be represented with 7 bits and more. This is why, if you are able to send electronically a binary file, you should also be able to send an ASCII file by the same means, but not vise-versa). By doing this convertion you can send that file to anyone as any ordinary E-mail through the Mail system, or you can post it to the newgroupp. You can't do that with a binary file as it is because 8 bit characters consist of characters that can't be printed or represent screen commands; moreover, the mail system can only send 7 bit data. Once you receive a uuencoded file you must UUDECODE the file before you are able to use the file. Sincerely, Scott K. Stephen P.S. Roland, if you read this post, please send me a E-mail with your bitnet or internet address. Thanks.