Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!munnari.oz.au!basser!atom!bob From: bob@atom.OZ (Bob Backstrom) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Freely-distributable uudecode for Unix Keywords: simtel20,listserv,trickle,uuencode,uudecode Message-ID: <1441@atom.OZ> Date: 22 Dec 89 01:38:47 GMT References: <1054@kosman.UUCP> <11828@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1989Dec19.044700.21383@chinet.chi.il.us> Reply-To: bob@atom.UUCP (Bob Backstrom) Organization: Australian Nuclear Science & Technology Organisation Lines: 14 One thing to watch out for with the C version of uudecode posted a little while back is how you open the output file under Turbo-C. Change the "w" to "wb" to open in BINARY mode. Otherwise, you'll have the great fun of every 0ah -> 0dh, 0ah making executables run for about a millisecond before jumping off to never-never land. Cheers. -- * ACSNET: bob@atom.oz Bob Backstrom, * Phone: (02) 543-3092 Australian Nuclear Science & Technology Organisation, * Private Mailbag 1, Menai, * New South Wales, Australia, 2234.