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From: TRL3@psuvm.psu.edu (Tim Larson)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: xx vs. uu
Message-ID: <90045.090024TRL3@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 14 Feb 90 14:00:24 GMT
References: <1513@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <22867@usc.edu>
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In article <22867@usc.edu>, kjh@pollux.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson) says:
>
>Where is XX[en|de]code available?  I've been looking for it for about 6
>months, and I've been unable to find it.  I claim that it is not
>available, and that is why it is not widely used.  I only rarely see
>things XXencoded.
>
>Kenneth J. Hendrickson N8DGN    kjh@usc.edu    ...!uunet!usc!pollux!kjh

XXde/encode are available at simtel20.arpa in pd1:<msdos.filutl>toadxx11.arc
pd1:<msdos.filutl>xxcp.arc, pd1:<msdos.starter>xxd11.bas, and
pd1:<msdos.starter>xxdecode.txt.  The last two are bootstrap programs in
BASIC and DEBUG, respectively.  Of the first two, I'm not sure which is the
more complete copy (since I have not downloaded them) but the other files
on simtel called toad* include source, so try that one (it's also the smaller
one by about 4:1).

As for my two bits worth, I wouldn't mind using XXdecode since we have
problems here with improper translation from EBCDIC to ASCII, but I like
using ZOO, since it is freeware and I have never had any trouble with my
copy of it.

Any tools that the group decides on could easily be posted to c.b.i.p as a
starter kit on a regular basis, to provide them to everyone.  After all,
that's how most of us got ZOO.

(gasp)
-Tim Larson
trl3@psuvm.bitnet