Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!maytag!water!ljdickey
From: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: BIGSCREEN question - same troubles ...
Message-ID: <2477@water.waterloo.edu>
Date: 25 Jun 89 15:27:53 GMT
References: <3682@orca.WV.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <3682@orca.WV.TEK.COM> stank@anvil.WV.TEK.COM (Stan Kalinowski) writes:
> ....  I discovered
>that the secret to decoding the arc files is to not use "uudecode" but
>to use "uud" instead.  Apparantly, Atari users are using something
>that performs a similar, but NOT COMPATIBLE function as the UNIX
>uuencode/uudecode.  

But it *is* compatible.  I have used uuencode/uudecode on UNIX system,
on the Atari ST, and on an IBM PC, (in all 12 combinations), with UUD/
UUE on the Atari ST and on UNIX.

		SOURCE SYSTEM			TARGET SYSTEM

		using uuencode			using uud

		Atari ST	--->		Atari ST
		IBM PC				VAX with UNIX
		VAX with UNIX

		using uue			using uudecode

		Atari ST	--->		Atari ST
		VAX with UNIX			IBM PC
						VAX with UNIX


UUD does some nice things for you that uudecode does not.  If the encoded
If your file is large, and must be mailed in several chunks, because of
limitations of your mailer or those of your intended recipient, or
intermediate mailers, UUD can create for you files which UUE can
re-assemble.  If you use uuencode and "split", say, to split up your
file instead, the recipient has to re-assemble the big uuencoded file
"by hand".

The second thing that UUE will do for you is to put in a character
table for you that UUD looks at to see if there have been any unwanted
translations along the way.  Uudecode ignores this table. These unwanted
translations characteristically happen at gateways that use EBCDIC codes.
One notorious example is UKACLR, which is the EARN (BITNET) gateway to
the UK.

The program was developed by J-P Dumas, who connects to this network at
site behind a "blue box" in France.

-- 
    L. J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo.
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