Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!ljdickey From: ljdickey@water.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Searching for a Prolog Message-ID: <1192@water.waterloo.edu> Date: Thu, 22-Oct-87 14:00:51 EDT Article-I.D.: water.1192 Posted: Thu Oct 22 14:00:51 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Oct-87 12:07:40 EDT References: Reply-To: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey) Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 18 In article ps2i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Paul Leonard Sonier) writes: >... >compress and decompress files to great extent. But ARC doesn't like the >file. I think it is encoded in a second way. I believe that this way is >UUE, although I do not know what it is, what it does, or why anyone would >want to encode something twice. If anybody out there has any info on any of >the points, ... These posting are usually done with ARC first, which creates a file that has a lot of binary stuff in it. In order to transmit it over the phone lines, it is UUencoded, so that only "printing" characters are used. -- L. J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo. ljdickey@watmath.UUCP UUCP: ...!uunet!watmath!ljdickey ljdickey%water@waterloo.edu ljdickey@watdcs.BITNET ljdickey%water%waterloo.csnet@csnet-relay.ARPA