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From: rer@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Rob Robason)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: UUencode/decode
Message-ID: <5570249@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 1 Aug 89 18:18:01 GMT
References: <SAAF.89Jul31101429@joker.optics.rochester.edu>
Organization: HP Ft. Collins, Co.
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> 	Is there an HP-UX analogue to uuencode and uudecode?  I have
> seen these commands on Berkeley systems and assume there must be a way
> to "ascii-ize" binary files with HP-UX.  Perhaps I assume too much? My
> system particulars are: HP-UX 3.1 on a 9000/835.

You may want to use the shar(1) command.  This is supported by HP and
allows archiving several binary files in a single file and unpacking
that file with /bin/sh.

Rob Robason