Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!spool2.mu.edu!samsung!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cica!bronze!copper!rschmidt From: rschmidt@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (roy schmidt) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: ASC II Zip files Keywords: ZIP ASC II UNPACKING Message-ID: <1991Jan16.172030.4135@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> Date: 16 Jan 91 17:20:30 GMT References: <1991Jan8.091717@magic.Berkeley.EDU> <1991Jan16.021142.21863@ddsw1.MCS.COM> Sender: news@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington Lines: 25 In article <1991Jan16.021142.21863@ddsw1.MCS.COM> whos@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Ben Feen) writes: >In article <1991Jan8.091717@magic.Berkeley.EDU> yow@magic.Berkeley.EDU (Billy Yow 713-283-4051) writes: >>Dumb question. What zip program is needed to unpack one of the ASC II >> >I think you mean Asc ][, right? Well, you need the UU incode program. >-- No, no, no! ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange. Part ][: The file M. Yow is inquiring about was uuencoded for transmission. This is a process that converts binary (executable) files to ASCII so they can be sent through netmail. To use the file, you must use another program, uudecode, to convert it back to binary form. Check out the starter kit for comp.binaries.ibm.pc for a complete explanation and copies of the necessary programs. Sheesh! whos this guy passing out misinformation! ;-) -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Roy Schmidt | #include Indiana University | /* They are _my_ thoughts, and you can't Graduate School of Business | have them, so there! */