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From: tsf@arizona.edu (Ted Frohling)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: UU encode/decode for VMS .obj and exe files.
Summary: Uudecoded ARC and VMS images
Message-ID: <3838@megaron.arizona.edu>
Date: 12 Feb 88 22:55:24 GMT
References: <8802121249.AA22879@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <577@naucse.UUCP>
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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I got a copy of ARC for vms off the net and used a local Unix machine to 
do the uudecoding, although I forgot I had uudecode for VMS avail.  After
uudecoding it I Ftp'd it to the VMS system in binary format of course.
Then set up a symbol arc == "$sys$disk:[]arc" and used it.  VMS doesn't
need to have executable files in fixed length 512 byte records.  The image
activator just has to find the right bytes in the right place in the file
header portion of the binary bits.  I agree that we should ALWAYS try
to get the source code.  There are too many viruses floating around for 
PCs and it surprises me that VMS hasn't been attacked more than it has
with such tripe.  John Campbel @ naucse.UUCP is right about moving objects
around tho.  The author of ARC for VMS may have been forced not to distribute
source for the program as I don't think System Enhancement Associates 
distributes code for the MSDOS version of the program.
.