ronald@robobar.co.uk (ronald) (01/31/91)
woodward@uicbert.eecs.uic.edu (Jeff Woodward) writes: > ( since they offer the only game * I * know in town for > transferring tar'red & compressed files to/from remote systems > to which i don't have a link ) If you look in the compress 4.0 distribution, you will find the programs atob and btoa which are analogous to uu{en,de}code, but are much better because they expand the resulting file by less *and* have a checksum at the end to ensure that it all got there and you didn't accidentally delete a line or two when you concatenated parts together :-) I use them to mail compressed files all the time. The sources to uu{en,de}code as well as the compress 4.0 distribution should be on uunet.uu.net. I think compress 4.0 is somewhere under comp.sources.unix and uu{en,de} code is in the uucp sub-directory somewhere under bsd-sources. -- Ronald Khoo <ronald@robobar.co.uk> +44 81 991 1142 (O) +44 71 229 7741 (H)