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From: a360ad@blake.acs.washington.edu (Gnurr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: FTP
Keywords: uudecode vs.uue
Message-ID: <969@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 25 Feb 89 23:38:48 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Univ of Washington, Seattle
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A few days ago, I left a message on the net seeking help
in uudecoding SPLIT binaries.

Again, i have no problem when i get an FTP file that is ONE file
complete....I get a hernia trying to cat SPLIT files and
uudecode, download and de-arc them.  Typical errors are 
"bad header... skipping (n) bytes "... where the docs look fine but the
program crashes. I should think there is a simple solution. 
 
However, i have tried uudecoding both before
and after concatenation.  In most cases, the splits have an
"include <filename>" at the end of each part.  So it seems that
all one would need do is run uudecode on part one... and theoretically
the remaining parts should should be fed through the program.
In every case, uudecode only decodes the first file.... so i end
up emacsing each file... catting them etc.... this never works.

The university is running BSD.4.3.   I am using XMODEM in 
GULAM (1.02.04.05) on a 1040ST.  

UUD.ttp works fine on UUE'd files (split).  But because most FTP
files are UUDECODED, i get but to stare at some incredible resources.

Please, someone offer an explicit desription of the appropriate
procedure.  

                   Much thanks in advance.

kevin
a360ad@blake.acs.washington.edu

* am I the only one with this problem ? *