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From: davidl@isc.intel.com (David Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Need uudecode for Mac
Message-ID: <1121@intelisc.isc.intel.com>
Date: 1 Feb 91 17:38:47 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.

This is not true.  uuencode is a completely different format from BinHex
4.0.  Both are methods to convert a binary file to a mailable text 
respresentation, but the resemblance ends there.  

A version of uudecode does exist for the Mac (I saw it go by on some
newsgroup or other, but I don't have it).  Versions of UnBinHex also exist
for UNIX systems, including "mcvert" and "xbin".

- David D. Levine, Intel Supercomputer Systems Division
  davidl@isc.intel.com (formerly davidl@leonardo.intel.com)
  "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe."