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From: acliu@skat.usc.edu (Alejandro Liu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Proposed archive
Summary: Reach out more people
Keywords: some Q and an acclaration...
Message-ID: <20850@usc.edu>
Date: 27 Oct 89 19:10:50 GMT
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In article <635@uwm.edu> jgreco@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Joe Greco) writes:
>>need for UUencoding/UUdecoding binaries.  Does anybody has such
>>program that would do that in the C64/128?  (There used to be one, but
>Why on the 64/128?  Why reinvent the wheel?  Your local UNIX should have all
 [Why reinvent uuencoding for the C64/128?]
Main reason is that some people are not as fortunate as we are to have
available all this utilities on our host (Not everybody is using Unix)
and still some peopl don't seem to get the configuration right!  (Like
they have to transfer files to their host, download it to a Mac, then
pass it trough a Connection to their Commodore,  The more steps you
take the most likely for a binary file to loose characters.

>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..
 (That is what I usually do! :)
Alejandro Liu
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