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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Dumas encoding (was Re: SAME OLD SAME OLD VOLUME 2)
Summary: Modified UUD works on multiple part encodings
Message-ID: <1989Sep15.123912.24116@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 15 Sep 89 12:39:12 GMT
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Sender: silvert@cs.dal.ca.UUCP (Bill Silvert)
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Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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In article <15573@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> dav@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (William David Haas) writes:
>Just thought I would pop into the UUD discusion.   My favorite feature of
>uud (not uudecode) is that you can save all the parts of a UUEncoded file
>from a newsgroup (like say comp.binaries.atari.st) into mailbox form and 
>uud that file.  The only catch is the parts must be in order.

It is easy to hack UUD so that you can save all the parts of a posting
and decode them all at one shot.  When something big comes along, like
nethack, I just save the parts as nh.01, nh.02, etc., and when the whole
thing is ready I give the command UUD nh.?? to decode the package.

If I don't hear from Dumas in the next few days (it is basically his
code, he should have first crack at modifying it) I will send my version
to Steve Grimm for posting.


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