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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: UUE (was BIGSCREEN question - same troubles ...)
Summary: UUE is generallu UUENCODE compatible
Message-ID: <3313@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 25 Jun 89 13:23:40 GMT
References: <3682@orca.WV.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: bill@biomel.UUCP
Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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In article <3682@orca.WV.TEK.COM> stank@anvil.WV.TEK.COM (Stan Kalinowski) writes:
>Apparantly, Atari users are using something
>that performs a similar, but NOT COMPATIBLE function as the UNIX
>uuencode/uudecode.  People like myself, who use IBM PC's and UNIX
>workstations, are accustomed to using identical utilities on both
>platforms.  Confusion results when someone says "use uudecode" to
>decode an archive when they really mean "use uud".

I have found that UUDECODE generally handles UUE-generated files
without difficulty.  You may have problems if your version of UUDECODE
gets confused by the extra check bytes, but I suspect that in this case
what happened was that the character set got screwed up in the
transmission and UUD's table-checking facility caught the problem and
corrected it.  In any case, you can run UUE/UUD on Unix systems, PC's,
or anything else, so the identical utility problem is easy to solve.

-- 
Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division.
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada B2Y 4A2
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