Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!unido!uklirb!kirchner
From: kirchner@uklirb
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc
Subject: NOT Unshar, but DUMAS-Uudecode - (nf)
Message-ID: <30200002@uklirb.UUCP>
Date: 21 Apr 88 09:23:00 GMT
Lines: 36
Nf-ID: #N:uklirb:30200002:000:1304
Nf-From: uklirb!kirchner    Apr 21 10:23:00 1988

Hello,
there is an even better way to concatenate the parts of an uuencoded file:

In the ATARI-ST world ( I use one as terminal ) there is the
'DUMAS-UUENCODE/DECODE-Package which does:

- while uuencoding splitting the file in parts named .uaa, .uab ...
  and inserting appropriate sequencing commands into the files
- while uuendcoding creates line-termination characters to avoid skipping
  of trailing blanks, and these characters do also a sequence checking,
  so get aware of missing lines.

The decode part uses all these features, replaces ` by blanks etc.

I do not have sources of this program, I also do not yet have a PC,
but will get several for education when the university gets funding.
So I do now only collect the software from the net and get angry when
I have not only to uudecode and unarc, but also to unshar on my atari,
which does not support the concatenating of files.

Could please somebody try to get the Dumas-Package and to bring it first
to the PC and then to us all ?

  Reinhard Kirchner
  University of Kaiserslautern
  Computer Science
  P.O.Box 3049
  D-6750 Kaiserslautern
  W-Germany

Arpa:   kirchner@uklirb@unido
  or:   kirchner%uklirb.uucp%germany.csnet@RELAY.CS.NET
CSNET:  kirchner%uklirb%uka.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa
UUCP:   ..{mcvax!}unido!uklirb!kirchner