Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!cs.dal.ca!silvert
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: there is more to decoding than the name!
Message-ID: <1989Sep17.001000.29924@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 17 Sep 89 00:10:00 GMT
References: <890913.23403949.035003@SFA.CP6> <1989Sep14.124128.26527@cs.dal.ca> <15573@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <1989Sep15.123912.24116@cs.dal.ca> <2352@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
Sender: silvert@cs.dal.ca.UUCP (Bill Silvert)
Reply-To: bill@biomel.UUCP
Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
Lines: 21

In article <2352@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> oplinger@minerva.crd.ge.com (B. S. Oplinger) writes:
>I got UUD from the terminator archive i beleive. I save messages
>from the net in the form 'nethck30.uag', just like it says on the
>begin line. I then say uud nethck30.uaa and uud does the rest! No
>file editing or anything, it just works. I suggest you try it.
>The uud documentation says it looks for a file in the current
>directory with the name that is in the include line. You don't
>have to do anything special.

Great if you only decode ST postings which were encoded with UUE.
My version of UUD works with PC postings also.  In addition, I can
decode all of the encoded files in a directory with one command -- it
finishes one and goes on to the next.  It even skips files with no
encoded material (often part 0 of a posting is like this).


-- 
Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division.
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada B2Y 4A2
	UUCP: ...!{uunet,watmath}!dalcs!biomel!bill
	Internet: biomel@cs.dal.CA	BITNET: bs%dalcs@dalac.BITNET