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From: krowitz@RICHTER.MIT.EDU (David Krowitz)
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Subject: Re:  Help requested for file conversions
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Date: 31 May 89 13:58:34 GMT
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You can do it with a relatively short program ... (which I
haven't gotten around to writing yet, of course)

Use the IOS_$INQ_TYPE_UID call to get the file's object type.
Then use the mapped segment calls (the MS_$ calls) to open
and read the entire file (including the 32-byte header) into
a buffer. Use the IOS_$CREATE call to create an ascii file
and then write the object type and the data from the 
original file into this ascii file and close it. You can
then use uuencode and mail the file. When the file is
received, you go through the reverse process (uudecode, open
the ascii file and read the object type and the data, use
IOS_$CREATE to create a file of the proper type and use
the MS_$ calls to write the data into the file).


 -- David Krowitz

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