w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL (Keith Petersen) (10/03/89)
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From: Erich Neuwirth <A4422DAB%AWIUNI11.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Re: UUD19.BAS and XXD.BAS
People usually have problems in bootstrapping UUDECODE and XXDECODE
programs. Using MAKEBAS from PC Magazine I produced Basic source
files which can be sent by mail to enable the recipient to produce
David Kirschbaum's UUD19.COM and XXD.COM. The recipient can then
decode any encoded binary files he or she receives, including
TOADUU19.ARC and TOADXX10.ARC which contain these binaries.
Erich
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Thanks, Erich! UUD19.BAS and XXD.BAS have been added to the SIMTEL20
archives in directory PD1:<MSDOS.STARTER>.
This is an excellent way for bootstrapping uudecode and xxdecode
since most MSDOS users have GWBASIC or BASICA.
The program source includes a checksum at the end of each line in
order to assure error-free creation of the COM file. It's also a very
short program since David Kirschbaum's uudecode and xxdecode are each
about 750 bytes in size.
I have verified that these Basic programs create UUD19.COM and UUX.COM
files which are identical, except for a few bytes of zero padding on
the end, to those distributed by the author David Kirschbaum. The
padding is probably caused by Basic's insistance of writing even
boundry 128 byte binary files. That will not affect the operation of
the COM files.
--Keith Petersen
Maintainer of SIMTEL20's CP/M, MSDOS, and MISC archives
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