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AR Mailing List
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If you have an internet mailing address, you can receive Amiga Report
in UUENCODED form each week as soon as the issue is released. To be put
on the list, send Email to listserv@bbs.xnet.com and in the body of
the message put:
ADD <mailaddress> armag
ie: ADD rniles@goofy.com armag
Your account must be able to handle mail of any size to ensure an
intact copy. For example, many systems have a 100K limit on incoming
messages.
Joining the Amiga Report Coverdisk list is just as easy, but REQUIRES
that your mail site be able to handle messages in excess of 600k.
Place the following in the body of a message to listserv@bbs.xnet.com:
ADD <mailaddress> ardisk
ie: ADD rniles@goofy.com ardisk
Many thanks to X-Net Information Systems for setting this service up
for us!
** IMPORTANT NOTICE: PLEASE be certain your host can accept mail over
** 100K! We have had a lot of bouncebacks recently from systems with a
** 100K size limit for incoming mail. If we get a bounceback with your
** address in it, it will be removed from the list. Thanks!
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World Wide Web
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AR can also be read with Mosaic (in either AmigaGuide or html form).
Reading AmigaReport with Mosaic removes the necessity to download it.
It can also be read using programs found in UNIX sites such as LYNX.
Simply tell Mosaic to open the following URL:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/Web/People/mjw/Computer/Amiga/AR/MainPage.html
Mosaic for the Amiga can be found on Aminet in directory comm/net, or
(using anonymous ftp) on max.physics.sunysb.edu
Mosaic for X, Macintosh(tm) and Microsoft Windows(tm) can be found on
ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu
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Aminet
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To get Amiga Report from Aminet, simply FTP to any Aminet site, CD
to docs/mags. All the back issues are located there as well.
(ftp.cdrom.com or ftp.wustl.edu are two sites)
UUEncoding/Decoding (thanks to Bob Tomasevich for the quick tutorial)
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What is uuencoding and uudecoding?
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uuencoding is converting a binary file into text (ASCII) which can be
sent through mail or Usenet. uudecoding is reversing the process
(e.g. converting the file back to binary).
Why would I want to do this?
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You have to send a binary file to a user who does not have
FTP access, or the user is too lazy to FTP the file.
What is the normal procedure?
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1. Convert the binary file into ASCII, using uuencode.
2. Send the file, through email, to the user.
3. The person on the receiving end gets the email, which may
be split into parts. If the email is split into parts, the
parts must be combined, in the order received, into one file.
4. Receiving person converts the file back into binary, using uudecode.
What does a uuencoded file look like?
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The start always has:
begin 644 <encoded file's name>
So, for the file happy-happy-joy-joy.txt, it would look like:
begin 644 happy-happy-joy-joy.txt
The encoded file begins right after:
M1TE&.#=A@`+@`9<````$`*QB15=2.+&/@R(Y)XM8.=J]H+*%7BL6#8]F6EP_]
M*$=E5"L?L-Z8A-:#60\@$,9P27-4-YB#;4HY)U!L9KZNE\O"O["#;8]82SDF>
M&[%J4FI',.&:E`48#="4@SE41M61<R`@%R$\,9:.?&!Z=NWM_\V';H-D1TI`=
.. more lines like the above ..
M>(`)N(`-^(`1.($5>($9N($=^($A.((E>((IN((M^((Q.(,U>(,YN(,]^(-!+
&V"\"`@`[&
``
end <-- the end of the encoded file
size 151341 <-- size of the original file
So, how would I do this on the Amiga?
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There are many uuencode/decode variants out there, but most usually
have kept the old UNIX command line, which can be confusing to novices,
or, require you to remove all mail headers and other, non-uuencoded text.
Luckily, Asher Feldman took the time to write UUxt.
What is UUxT?
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It is a program which performs both the uuencode/decode operations in
one executable, AND, can also pack/unpack LhA archives.
Tell me more.
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The UUxT archive contains UUxT, the CLI version, and UUxtGUI, the
Workbench interface. I will give a short summary of how to use
both. Detailed instructions are included in the UUxT archive.
CLI Version:
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Running UUxT without any options gives the following:
UUxT Version 2.1a Copyright (c)1993 Asher Feldman
USAGE: UUxT [option] [archive name] <LhA archive name> <file(s)>
options: a - encode l - LhAencode
x - decode u - LhAdecode
showing the format of the command line and the valid options.
Some example command lines:
1. Normal encoding - UUxt a filename.uue filename-to-archive
2. Normal decoding - UUxt x filename.uue
3. LhA archiving and encoding -
UUxT l filename.uue filename.lha file1 file2 ...
4. Decoding and LhA unarchiving - UUxT u filename.uue
For LhA encoding and decoding, you will need LhA by Stefan Boberg.
Workbench (GUI) Version:
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Below is a ASCII rendition of the UUxT-GUI window (from UUxtGUI doc):
____________________________________________________________
|+| UUxT-GUI Frontend v1.0 (c)1993 Asher Feldman |
+------------------------------------------------------------+
| ______________________ ______________________ |
| |InFile | | |OutFile| | |
| +-------+--------------+ +-------+--------------+ |
| (1) (2) (3) (4) |
| ____________ _____________ |
| Operation |@| Decode | Lha Name | | |
| +-+----------+ +-------------+ |
| (5) (6) |
| _________ |
| | START | |
| +---------+ |
| (7) |
+------------------------------------------------------------+
(1) Clicking on this brings up a requester to select the file you want
to perform the operation shown in gadget (5).
(2) You can manually type here the filename of the file affected by the
operation indicated in gadget (5).
(3) Used only for encoding, brings up a requester to select where the
encoded file should go. Selecting an existing file will cause the
existing file to be replaced by the encoded file. You can also use
this requester to create directories.
(4) You can manually type the filename of the file to be the encoded file.
(5) The operation to perform on file shown in (2). The operations are
the four provided by UUxT (uuencode/uudecode/LhAEncode/LhADecode).
(6) The name of the archive created with the LhAEncode option. Ignored
when any other operation is selected.
(7) Does the encode/decode/LhAEncode/LhADecode and pops up a requester
indicating if the operation was successful or not.
I need this! Where can I get it?
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If you use the Internet from a local BBS, you may find it there. If not
you can FTP it from wuarchive.wustl.edu, in the directory
pub/aminet/arc/UUxT.lha
It should also be on the Aminet mirrors.
Thanks for the explanation! How can I reach you if I have questions?
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Internet: bob.tomasevich@nezuld.com
bobt@ais.net
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