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From: steve@thelake.mn.org (Steve Yelvington)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Re: Binary File Transfer
Message-ID: <A2845578547@thelake.mn.org>
Date: 20 Sep 90 02:12:56 GMT
References: <59qRP1w163w@questor.wimsey.bc.ca>
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[In article <59qRP1w163w@questor.wimsey.bc.ca>,
     slyster@questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lyster) writes ... ]

> Does anyone in the ST world know about sending ARC or LZH files via
> 
> binary  transfer, which is the equivolent of coding the ARC'ed file as
> 
> ASCII text  and then posting it as a "message"?  Apparently sender
> 
> needs to code the  file appropriately, and the receiver must have the
> 
> decoder... does anyone  know of such a beast for the ST?  If so, it
> 
> might be made use of here!

Of course. Binary files are regularly transmitted in the proper
newsgroup (comp.binaries.atari.st), encoded into ASCII with the
standard ``uue'' program, which is available for the ST, PC and
most other machines.

C, executable binary and BASIC versions of the companion decoder are
available from the archive-server@panarthea.EBay.SUN.COM.

 --
 Steve Yelvington up at the lake in Minnesota
 (moving soon to Marine on St. Croix)
 steve@thelake.mn.org   plains!umn-cs!thelake!steve