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From: LC.YRS@forsythe.stanford.edu (Richard Stanton)
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Subject: Re: UUDECODE and its ilk
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Date: 19 Jan 90 01:58:18 GMT
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In article <3835@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>,
jmerrill@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Jason Merrill) writes:
>Do UUENCODE, BIN/HEX and BOO all use the same format?  In other words, can I
>use UUDECODE a .BOO file I got off watsun.cc.columbia.edu?

I think not. For example, I believe that BOO files will replace
repeated bytes with a single byte plus a counter, which is not done
by UUENCODE.

I don't remember the name of the program, but in the KERMIT archive
I downloaded from SIMTEL20 a while ago, there was included a program
to convert BOO files back to binary. I assume the program must also
be somewhere on watsun.cc.columbia.edu, since they have a load of
KERMIT stuff (in fact, isn't BOO format used primarily for KERMIT
distribution?). If you can't find a copy, e-mail me. I can send you
a UUENCODED version of this program.

BIN/HEX is different again, and less efficient than the other two.
Each byte is replaced by 2 bytes representing the two digits of the
original hex number.

Richard Stanton