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From: Ordania-DM@cup.portal.com (Charles K Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: need help w/file trans
Message-ID: <40681@cup.portal.com>
Date: 29 Mar 91 19:49:17 GMT
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Somebody wrote: (put your name at the end of your posts and I'll put it at
the beginning of mine, fair enough?)
>xdn22@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU (Paul T.) writes:
>
>> 
>>      Using an account on a VAX, I managed to figure out how
>> to utilize FTP and tranfer a binary file from the archive
>> at umich. The problem is that I dont know how to get the
>> file from my account to my atari.
>>      I have an 800, am using sparta-dos, and have 850 Express
>> as a terminal program. 
>>      Also, what exactly is UUENCODE, and how does one
>> unencode it?
>> 
>> Any help, or information at all would be greatly appreceated.
>> 
>> Paul T.
>
>ME too!! I did this also and I cant get it off the CYBER!
>Its in my account but I have no idea what to do with it now.

  Well, you have to connect your Atari to the computer that has the info
on it.  This means use a terminal program and dial up the modem that
is connected to the big computer.  If the computer doesn't have a modem
that you can use, you are SOL.
  Ok, once you've managed to get the files into your Atari, you need to 
uuDEcode them.  UuENcode turns a binary file into a text file, DEcode
does the reverse.  There is a basic uuDEcoder available (sorry, I don't 
have it nearby) which is listed and has no special codes in it.  This
basic listing can be ENTERed right into basic and run.  Once you have
the basic DEcode working, you can FTP for the binary decoder (which works
a lot faster) and decode it.

Charles_K_Hughes@cup.portal.com