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From: jgreco@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Joe Greco)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Proposed archive
Keywords: some Q and an acclaration...
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Date: 27 Oct 89 14:32:10 GMT
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In comp.sys.cbm article <20828@usc.edu>, acliu@skat.usc.edu (Alejandro Liu) wrote:
>The only problem, with that, besides of being in Finland, is that the
>C64 stuff doesn't seem to be very well supported.

And tolsun is not always easy to get to.... busy site, with 'irc' and all.

>2) Since most Mail links are usually 7 bit connections, there would be
>need for UUencoding/UUdecoding binaries.  Does anybody has such
>program that would do that in the C64/128?  (There used to be one, but
>I didn't save it, sorry)  Also, some connections, won't accept mail
>messages bigger than 64K so some way to split and join files neatly in
>the C64 will be needed.  Who would like to write such application for
>the C64/128?

Why on the 64/128?  Why reinvent the wheel?  Your local UNIX should have all
the needed utilities - if not, they can be had from many archive sites.

Let UNIX do the work.  Then simply sx or sy it to your machine.

You can also use kermit in binary mode, or the more generic "xmodem" command..


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