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From: tenaglia@mis.mcw.edu ("Chris Tenaglia - 257-8765")
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Subject: UUXXCODE
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Date: 20 Sep 90 14:21:14 GMT
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I'd like to thank Ken Walker for his corrective advice in getting the
uuencode fixed. Apparently the uudecode was ok. Thanks also for the
alternative iiencode/iidecode. It sure generated a stir. I was looking
for a little unix-like functionality, but it seems to be of great
interest to benchmarkers too. The uudecode is probably a pretty shabby
example, since I converted it almost literally from a PC BASIC program.

For VMS folks, uuencode and uudecode are nifty ways of converted binary
data to printable/mailable ascii and back again. It expands 3 binary
bytes into 4 printable bytes. This 33% increase is more compact than
vms dump data. Unfortunately vms has oodles of file types, and not all
will work. VMS Executables (.EXE) will compress and decompress just fine.
Icon executables work too (.ICX). Object files (.OBJ) won't work at all.
Text files almost work. Sometimes there is a little trailing garbage on
the end of the file (or is that a bug in my program?)

Is there any interest in a reposting of the finished programs?

Chris Tenaglia (System Manager)
Medical College of Wisconsin
8701 W. Watertown Plank Rd.
Milwaukee, WI 53226
(414)257-8765
tenaglia@mis.mcw.edu, mcwmis!tenaglia