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- Included in this package are two Icon source files, iiencode.icn and
- iidecode.icn. When compiled, these will yield icode files which
- emulate the Unix uuencode and uudecode commands. They are supposed to
- be completely compatible with all existing uuen/decode versions, and
- are patterned after latest publicly distributable BSD C source code.
-
- For those who are working at sites subject to the vicissitudes of
- ASCII<->EBCDIC translation, an extra switch (-x) is included that
- makes iiencode/iidecode produce/extract xxencode-format files (which
- do not get mangled when moving through non-ASCII sites). Before using
- this switch with the uuencode command, make sure that the person to
- receive the coded transmission can unpack xxencoded files.
-
- Iiencode and iidecode have been tested under Unix and Xenix, and work
- fine. They have received brief testing under MS-DOS, and appear to
- work there as well.
-
- For systems which use some other sequence in place of UNIX LFs (e.g.
- MS-DOS), there is a special iiencode switch, -o filename, which
- directs iiencode to send its output to filename instead of &output.
- This makes it possible to strip out trailing carriage returns, and
- write an output file in UNIX format.
-
- Iien/decode are written in Icon, which is extremely portable. Anyone
- with an Icon interpreter or compiler can install them. And, since
- Icon is free (obtainable from the U. of Arizona at cs.arizona.edu),
- the programs really are without cost of any kind.
-
- Note: They aren't very fast especially when the -x switch is used.
-
- -Richard (goer@sophist.uchicago.edu)
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