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From: gaudreau@juggler.East.Sun.COM (Joe Gaudreau - Sun BOS Software)
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Subject: Re: mystery UNIX file
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Date: 19 Dec 90 17:03:56 GMT
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Phil Goetz sez:

>>IT IS UNIX.  HERE IS UNIX.  HOPE YOU HAVE FUN WITH IT.
>
>begin 0/unix.Z
>MCS;0J.-@M=*<AOC/M"=VM"07:5Z$($L.JR)OCEN_G5P!8+HN;<^5\.Z@W[/<
>M26_,RT_K_D8J"AZ"#TTJ6<%DSQT^042QT1=EZ?X.!7L^[BZ,:Q)$OA]-UB'O
>MDX5+J,\7*\:'D<]L(2M1.0IGA/^2Y)"D_&WO?/TW.>>W88=D54Z73 _P9MI-
>etc.

the file has been compressed and uuencoded.  To reverse this, you must
first uudecode the file and then uncompress it.

also, the first line would probably look better as:
begin 666 unix.Z

maybe it's a joke...

assuming you don't have uudecode, try this (courtesy of rec.arts.startrek):

This question has been asked before, many times, so I think many will
find this useful.

Here's the source code to a C program for uudecode.  If you can compile
C, or can translate it into a language you do have, this should solve
your problems.

David B. Mears
Hewlett-Packard
Cupertino CA
hplabs!hpda!mears
mears@hpinddf.cup.hp.com
---------------
#include <stdio.h>
#define DEC(c)  (((c) - ' ') & 077)
main()
{
        int n;
        char dest[128], a,b,c,d;

        scanf("begin %o ", &n);
        gets(dest);

        if (freopen(dest, "w", stdout) == NULL) {
                perror(dest);
                exit(1);
        }

        while ((n=getchar()) != EOF && (n=DEC(n))!=0)  {
                while (n>0) {
                        a = DEC(getchar());
                        b = DEC(getchar());
                        c = DEC(getchar());
                        d = DEC(getchar());
                        if (n-- > 0) putchar(a << 2 | b >> 4);
                        if (n-- > 0) putchar(b << 4 | c >> 2);
                        if (n-- > 0) putchar(c << 6 | d);
                }
                n=getchar();
        }
        exit(0);
}


cheers,

Joe
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