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From: jdc@naucse.UUCP (John Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: UU encode/decode for VMS .obj and exe files.
Summary: UUENCODE / OBJECT FILES
Message-ID: <577@naucse.UUCP>
Date: 12 Feb 88 17:00:23 GMT
References: <8802121249.AA22879@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
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In article <8802121249.AA22879@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, VAUGHAN@CANISIUS.BITNET (Tom Vaughan @ Computer Center) writes:
> 
> Where, if any exist, can I obtain uuencode and uudecode for vms?  Here is the

and

 in article <207@sdrc.UUCP>, scjones@sdrc.UUCP (Larry Jones) writes:
>
>Here it is!
>
>The following is the uuencoded VAX/VMS version of System Enhancements
>Associates' ARC V5.12.  This is just the executable ...

                                 PART I

I was able to take Larry's ARC file off with the uuencode/uudecode that
was posted a while back to a unix group on VMS.  In other words, if you
have a 'C' compiler then the uuencode available on the net will work on
VMS.  Of course, I ended up with the wrong file attributes and had to
use ANALYZE/FDL, EDIT/FDL, and CONVERT/FDL to put the EXE files back
into a fixed length 512 format.  If you can't find uuencode/uudecode on
the net, and we can establish an email path, then I could mail you my
copies.

                                 PART II

I think we shouldn't send EXE files.  If you don't want to send the
actual code (and I guess there are reasons), why not send the OBJ file?
A while back the C RTL was reorganized, causing EXE files to no longer be
backwards compatible.  If the user had an OBJ file then they could just
relink and run on older and newer operating system.  I worry that at
some future release of VMS my ARC users won't be able to get to their files...

This is not a flame, I really wanted ARC so thanks Larry.  Do others agree,
however, that it would be best to send 1) *source*, 2) *object* files?  Am
I missing something?
-- 
	John Campbell               ...!arizona!naucse!jdc

	unix?  Sure send me a dozen, all different colors.