Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!brahms.udel.edu!snyder From: snyder@chopin.udel.edu (Mayleen G Snyder) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit Subject: Re: need help w/file trans Message-ID: <16822@chopin.udel.edu> Date: 28 Mar 91 20:07:22 GMT References: <1991Mar28.184011.26608@news.iastate.edu> Organization: University of Delaware Lines: 15 uuencode is a method of changing files so they can be put in a post (i.e. get rid of control and chars over 96....) as for getting therm from your host....try seeing if it offers XMODEM (some do) if not get kermit.... it is on just about every UNIX or VAX system i have seen.....(it can be gotten from most local BBS's...or a user groups library.....) you said you use express? try using OMNICOM it is 80 cols and is great if you don't have a XEP-80..... Sloopy X. Malibu snyder@brahms.udel.edu (Chris Luckey) snyder@mocha.acs.udel.edu