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From: kirchner@uklirb.UUCP (Reinhard Kirchner)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Concerning muli-part-transmissions / file-splitting
Keywords: filetransmission, shar, file-splitting
Message-ID: <2243@uklirb.UUCP>
Date: 18 May 88 12:04:43 GMT
Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, W-Germany
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Posted: Wed May 18 13:04:43 1988

Recently there has been a discussion about shar/unsharing of multi-
part-arcs for transmission over the net.

In the ATARI-ST-world there is a very nice tool, the so called
DUMAS-uuencode/uudecode, which does
-splitting long files into parts,
-adding sequencing-information, namely include statements, into each
 part,
-adding line-sequencing information to catch missing lines.

The uudecode then appends the parts automatically, checks line sequence
and prints appr. error messages.

The whole thing is very easy to handle and should be available on the PC
too. ( I use an ATARI as terminal, so I have binaries of it )

Somebody should find out the address of Mr. DUMAS in the atari-newsgroups,
try to get the source of the package, bring it to the PC and post the
program to all of us.

R. Kirchner