casbs@csli.Stanford.EDU (Lynn Gale) (10/03/90)
We want to send binary files back and forth from a Sun (UNIX) to a Vax (VMS) through email to Great Britain. These are WordPerfect 5.1 formatted files which have been uploaded to the Sun or the Vax. Mailing from UNIX to UNIX seems to work fine by doing "uuencode" at one end and "uudecode" at the receiving end. This encodes the file into ASCII (for email), then decodes it back to binary. Is there a VMS equivalent command such that a uuencoded file can be decoded? Or is there an alternative process available to get binaries back and forth from UNIX to VMS through the mail? The Vax users in Britain have used "makeboo" and "deboo" programs to encode and decode binaries, but we don't know what to do with "boo" files in UNIX! lynn@casbs.stanford.edu lynn%casbs@stanford.bitnet
kgallagh@digi.lonestar.org (Kevin Gallagher) (10/03/90)
In article <15624@csli.Stanford.EDU> casbs@csli.stanford.edu (Lynn Gale) writes: >We want to send binary files back and forth from a Sun (UNIX) to a Vax >(VMS) through email to Great Britain. Well, there is VAXHAX, which can be obtained from DECUS. It is a VMS binary to ascii converter. (A VAX Unix version probably exists, but I admit to knowing very little about VAX Unix.) I suspect that uuencode/uudecode is also available for VMS. Your best bet is to contact DECUS. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kevin Gallagher kgallagh@digi.lonestar.org OR ...!uunet!digi!kgallagh DSC Communications OR apcihq!apcidfw!digi!kgallagh ----------------------------------------------------------------------------