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From: daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David H. Huang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Need uudecode for Mac
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Date: 29 Jan 91 15:45:18 GMT
References: <1991Jan22.224834.23835@athena.mit.edu> <1991Jan25.115338.7553@vax1.tcd.ie>
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In article <1991Jan25.115338.7553@vax1.tcd.ie> dagraham@vax1.tcd.ie writes:
>In article <1991Jan22.224834.23835@athena.mit.edu>, abennett@athena.mit.edu (Andrew Bennett) writes:
>> 
>> Is there uuencode/decode available for the Mac?
>
>uudecode="BinHex 4.0"
>
>BinHex and uuencode formats are (I think) the same; You can uudecode a file
>using BinHex. All the StuffIts do BinHexing and deBinHexing too, so it
>shouldn't be a problem.

BinHex and uuencode are definitely not the same... BinHex is a Mac-type program
so it preserves the creator and filetypes (and icon info too?). uuencode is a
Unix-type program and it preserves the file access flags. The actual encoding
methods are also very different. BTW, I said "Mac-type" and "Unix-type" since
there are programs to decode BinHex on many different computers, and there
are programs to uudecode on the Mac.

Anyways, there is a uuencode/decode available for the Mac. I'm not sure where
though.

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