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From: kellogg@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu (Lars Kellogg-Stedman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Need uudecode for Mac
Summary: There are uuencode & uudecode programs for the Mac
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Date: 29 Jan 91 23:54:36 GMT
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   > No mac application I know of (not that I know of them all, mind)
   > does uudecode, though I know of a module for StuffIt that is in the
   > works. Expect to see some in the future though, since some broken
   > mac mail systems think uuencode is the cat's meow, probably because
   > they had UNIX code lying around to do it.
 
There are, in fact, Mac applications that do uuencode.  One is uu'er, a 
small application that can uudecode and uuencode files.  I think 
(although I'm not sure) that UMCP Tools will also uuencode a file.
 
Uu'er is much faster than other programs I have tried.
 
Lars

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