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From: ljdickey@water.UUCP
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Subject: Re: new user asking for help.......?
Message-ID: <1248@water.waterloo.edu>
Date: Tue, 10-Nov-87 11:45:44 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 10 11:45:44 1987
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Reply-To: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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Keywords: confused, mail, Uniterm?, gulam?, UUDECODE???????

In article <5417@jhunix.UUCP> ins_ajcn@jhunix.UUCP (Julio Cesar Navas) writes:
>
>     Hey folks!  I'm very much new to all of this  ...

> 1. UUDECODE - I take it from my perusals of the network that UUDECODE is way 
> different from ARC - but how different?  

ARC is several things at once... It can combine several files into
one file, gives you a check sum, and, unless you force otherwise, will
compress them according one or another data compression method.

UUENCODE, is a program that takes as input any file (such as a ".TOS"
file or an ARC file, for instance) and produces another that contains
only printable characters.  UUDECODE is the inverse of UUENCODE.

If I understand correctly, the use of XMODEM requires use of all 256 8-bit
characters to do a transfer.  This may be OK if you are calling from your
computer to another via one direct phone link, as well as
in some other circumstances.
However, some networks, for their own purposes,
respond to control characters, and for that reason, folks have
settled on schemes that move only printable characters.  (Hence UUen-
and UUde-code.)  Even this has caused some problems because *some* 
machines that come in BLUE boxes and use EBCDIC codes are a bit out of
sync with these that use ASCII codes.


> 2. UNITERM - I've seen this mentioned a few times. 
> From what I see it seems to be pretty good.  Does it have  KERMIT?  

Yes it is great, and yes, it has KERMIT.

All our mainframes here run KERMIT, even those that come in BLUE boxes.

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