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From: 6600dayl@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Darryl "NOT Sara" Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Uuencoding/decoding...anybody know how to do it right?  help!
Keywords: uuencoding uudecoding help compressing ascii
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Date: 16 May 91 21:55:20 GMT
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ok, so i've got this really cool thing called MacLayers.  It let's me
do multiple windows (a la Sun) on a Mac.

i compile it on my friend's CS acct, because the account that i have
is only supposed to be used for e-mail and text editing.

so it works on his acct.--a Sun3 running SunOS 4.0.3.  It's cool, it's
neat, it'snifty.  But it's not on my account.

so i uuencode the binary files that make up MacLayers:

layers, layersize, etc...

i type:  uuencode layers layers > layer.u

it creates a text file that begins with "begin ..." and ends with
"end".

i mail this file to me, like:

mail 6600dayl... < layer.u

so, i go back to my account, write my "mailed" program to a file,
edit out the mail header information... then i type:

uudecode layer.u (or whatever i saved it as)

and it says:

short file

and i try and run it, and it says:

segmentation fault

and the core is dumped, immediately making me exceed my disk quota
(yes, these little e-mail/vi accounts only are allowed .5 megs...)

so...ANY ideas???

--Darryl