jmerrill@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Jason Merrill) (01/19/90)
Do UUENCODE, BIN/HEX and BOO all use the same format? In other words, can I use UUDECODE a .BOO file I got off watsun.cc.columbia.edu?
LC.YRS@forsythe.stanford.edu (Richard Stanton) (01/19/90)
In article <3835@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>, jmerrill@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Jason Merrill) writes: >Do UUENCODE, BIN/HEX and BOO all use the same format? In other words, can I >use UUDECODE a .BOO file I got off watsun.cc.columbia.edu? I think not. For example, I believe that BOO files will replace repeated bytes with a single byte plus a counter, which is not done by UUENCODE. I don't remember the name of the program, but in the KERMIT archive I downloaded from SIMTEL20 a while ago, there was included a program to convert BOO files back to binary. I assume the program must also be somewhere on watsun.cc.columbia.edu, since they have a load of KERMIT stuff (in fact, isn't BOO format used primarily for KERMIT distribution?). If you can't find a copy, e-mail me. I can send you a UUENCODED version of this program. BIN/HEX is different again, and less efficient than the other two. Each byte is replaced by 2 bytes representing the two digits of the original hex number. Richard Stanton