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From: jlemon@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Jonathan Lemon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Dumas encoding (was Re: SAME OLD SAME OLD VOLUME 2)
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Date: 17 Sep 89 00:32:27 GMT
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In article <2420@dogie.macc.wisc.edu> gilmore@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Neil Gilmore) writes:
]Well, I have the uud from panarthea and this is how I do it. 
]1. Send mail to panarthea.
]2. Wait for reply.
]3. Repeat as needed to get all the files.
]4. Since this account is on a VMS machine, use EDT to edit out the 
]headers, and for multi-part things, edit the include at the end to 
]specify b:, cause I don't have a harddisk.
]5. Go home.
]6. Log in at home.
]7. Save the files by capturing screen output.
]8. Put fresh disk w/ only UUD in a:.
]9. UUD specifying that the first file is on b:.
]10. De-ARC form A: to a new disk on b:.
]
]If anyone has a better idea (especially for the transfer from my work 
]account to my ST) please tell it to me. It might just allow me to get 
]some of the ARC'ed files from some of the other sources (I don't seem to 
]be able to transfer them to my ST).

What you need is something that handles protocol transfer.  You can use
your current method for uu'ed files, since the intention of uuencoding is
to enable a file to be sent via mail, using only printable ASCII chars.
When you try to do the same with ARC, or any other random binary file,
your terminal might interpret it as a command, or the character is not
displayed.  (Common example: /000 or NUL).  I believe that there is a
well-liked pd program called uniterm that will handle different xfer 
protocols, avalible from terminator.  You can use this on your Atari.
If you don't have a protocol on your UN*X end, (don't laugh, I've seen
systems without kermit, for example) then I can get mail you a pd version
of xmodem to use.

What I do:
1. Get the files
2. run them through uud or uudecode(UN*X)
3. run the binaries through arc
3. xfer them to my Atari.
4. un-arc them (arcing them saves me xfer time)
5. run.

Much simpler.
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