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From: james_jim_woomer@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: listserv file decoding
Message-ID: <27404@cup.portal.com>
Date: 1 Mar 90 00:52:34 GMT
References: <27395@cup.portal.com>
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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I am in the process of upgrading to ST 1.50. Unfortunately I didn't
download the the PC upgrades when they were posted.  I have, however,
started to pull them off of LISTSERV.  My problem is this:
 I requested the files with the f=uuencode option.  After receiving
numerous files I decided to try to decode them.  I'm having no luck.
I've tried the following so far:
 1. uudecode in minix.
 2. uudecode in unix.
 Each of the above seem to produce a binary file which I assumed to 
 be in compressed format.  I changed their names to foo.Z and tried 
 the minix compress -d on it as well as uncompress with a -b 13 option 
 on unix - each complained that it wasn't compressed format.

 After 1 & 2 , I requested and received 2 files in LPUNCH format as
well as the LPUNCH info packet with the c conversion routine.
The LPUNCH conversion didn't work at all. It complains on just about 
every line - either premature EOF or lines over 80 characters.  I'm in the
process of debugging this - but I would like to be able to use the uuencoded 
files I already have.

  Does anyone have a way out of this - Just what is it I have?

Thanks - Jim Woomer.