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From: silvert@dalcs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Stupid character changing!!
Message-ID: <2511@dalcs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 7-Apr-87 06:13:51 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  7 06:13:51 1987
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References: <5846@reed.UUCP> <607@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Reply-To: silvert@dalcs.UUCP (Bill Silvert)
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Summary: Dumas runs under Unix

In article <607@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> engst@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu.UUCP (Adam C. Engst) writes:
>
>Try using Dumas's uudecode on the ST.  It's not as fast as decoding on a
>mainframe, but it's pretty fast (particularly in a ramdisk) and I haven't
>had it fail to decode a file yet.  On the other hand, I've only ever
>gotten one file to decode properly on Cornell's Batcomputer.  It's posted at
>Houston on Bitnet, and it probably has already been sent to Jim Turner,
>since I think it's generally considered the best uudecode out.

You can easily compile the Dumas files under unix.  Just delete the
osbind.h inclusion and use printf for the output (there is a GEM output
function used somewhere, just delete the code and define Console or
whatever it is called to be printf).

I have been using it for both en and decoding for quite a while now, and
it seems very robust.

Highly recommended.

-- 
Bill Silvert, Modelling/Statistics Group
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada
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