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- From: Jason <tmr@cosine.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: Please Read: WHAT IS UUENCODING?
- Date: Sat, 30 Mar 96 01:04:12 GMT
- Organization: Cosine Systems
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- Rune Moe (akersm@sn.no) wrote:
-
- : I got an e-mail with an .exe file as x.attachment, it said 'UUENCODED'
- : and the .exe file was integrated in the mail document! This produced
- : something like when you open an .exe in NotePad!
-
- From what I read in the docs I got with my 'net software its encoded to
- 7 bit for mail transmission. Basically it just mashes it down so that
- the file can be sent as ASCII (or something like that!)
-
- : My question is:
- : Did something go wrong when the person sent this? Is this normal?
- : What do I do to make the .exe file into a .exe file that I can
- : actually execute?
-
- In order:
- No, Yes and you need a UUDecoder! Which machine are you using (Amiga, PC
- or Mac) I know a good Amiga one but I dunno about the other machines!
-
- Jason =-)
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