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From: readdm@walt.cc.utexas.edu (David M. Read)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Automated extraction of programs from c.b.i.p postings.
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Date: 28 Jul 90 20:29:30 GMT
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This exact discussion has come up on several other groups to which I
subscribe; whether or not to scrap the uuencode standard and move
on to something better (with concommitant headaches as everyone
scrambles to get the new code), or just to stick with the one eveybody's
alread got?

Well, I don't think there's any need to scrap uuencode...I have recently
written a new version of uuencode that uses the old standard, but 
automatically handles multi-part encodes and decodes, splitting large
files and adding "cut here" lines in the encode case, and skipping
over headers & trailers in the decode case.  It's menu-driven and
supports a command-line mode, comes with (simplistic) on-line help
and it's free to anyone who wants it.

If you'd like a copy of the source code and/or the MS-DOS executable,
send me a message at   read@lampf.lanl.gov and tell me which you want
(also UNIX and VMS versions will be available shortly), and I'll send
it out as fast as I can.

So far I have gotten over 100 requests for it from the readers of
alt.sex.pictures, and no-one has expressed anything but general 
satisfaction.

The advantage to this, of course, is that it allows you to have the 
ease-of-use you want without forcing a change of standards...so the 
people stuck in the dark ages can remain there happily.

Anyway, just tryin' to help...


-Dave                                 | LAMPF and UT don't believe that 
 Dave Read: read@lampf.lanl.gov       | their people have opinions.  Who 
            read@physics.utexas.edu   | am I to disillusion them? 
            readdm@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu | #include <cutepicture.h>