Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!maytag!water!ljdickey
From: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: zoo problems
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Date: 16 Feb 90 04:46:56 GMT
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In article <9221@cbnewsm.ATT.COM> wao@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (william.a.oswald,alc,) writes:
>Has anyone on the net successfully unpacked a zoo file
>(anything.zoo) using any of the available zoo programs?
>I have down loaded several .zoo files using XMODEM and
>KERMIT and have tried to unpack them using several ZOO
>programs (booz for example). Nothing works. I always
>get a CRC error.

Sure, many.  Never had a problem.  There are two ways to do it.
One is to make sure that your file transfer protocol handles
full 8 bit bytes.  Many are oriented to handling only graphic
characters (94 or 95 or so).  The other, which I use, is to
"uuencode" the file first, then "uudecode" it at the other end.
This is the choice I use.  I have zoo on the Atari ST and the
PC and UNIX system at the office.

The uu-encoder and decoders that I like best are UUE and UUD by
J-J.Dumas.  His code is highly reliable and overcomes some of
the difficulties of certain notorious gateways between BiTNET,
and UseNet and InterNet.

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