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From: w8sdz@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Keith Petersen)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Why are postings NOT in shar form
Summary: Richard Marks' uudecode doesn't work on Unix or VMS
Message-ID: <4138@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
Date: 6 Dec 90 07:18:55 GMT
References: <1717@syteke.be> <1990Dec5.120318.335@sc2a.unige.ch>
Reply-To: w8sdz@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Keith Petersen)
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI
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In article <1990Dec5.120318.335@sc2a.unige.ch> fisher@sc2a.unige.ch writes:
>But, there's good news:  If the latest version of R.M.'s uudecode becomes
>the standard, then we could satisfy everybody:  according the the docs the
>latest version can extract uuencoded data from a shar file!  (don't hold your
>breath, though, this is probably not for tomorow...).

Richard Marks' uudecode won't become a standard until he releases some
portable C code for it so it can be used on a lot of different
systems.  I asked him to do this over a year ago but so far only
MS-DOS versions without source have been released.

Keith
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