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From: cybrspc!roy@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Uudecode in Perl?
Message-ID: <DV2wo2w162w@cybrspc>
Date: 3 Sep 90 09:36:24 GMT
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composer@chem.bu.edu (Jeff Kellem) writes:

> In article <VX6uo4w162w@cybrspc>
> 	cybrspc!roy@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) writes:
>  > Has anyone implemented UUdecode in Perl?
> 
> As of version 3.0 patchlevel 28 of perl, uu{de,en}coding is builtin to perl
> via the `pack' and `unpack' functions.

That'll be great when I can get up to pl28. Currently, I'm stuck at pl18
with the MS-DOS version.

I guess the next question is... has anyone built the MS-DOS port to
pl28?

Thanks for the reply, Jeff.
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