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- From: vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan)
- Subject: Re: [Q] how to use uu{en,de}code ?
- Keywords: uuencode uudecode
- References: <1992Dec15.163305.11782@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Organization: Vince and Suzie's Underpowered PC
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 19:34:12 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.193412.841@victrola.sea.wa.us>
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- ron@argus.lpl.Arizona.EDU (Ron Watkins) writes:
- >2) When I try to use uuencode, I get error messages consistend with uudecode.
- >Errors included, "No begin line" "No end line" ... Typical stuff if you are
- >indeed trying to use uudecode, but I was using uuencode.
-
- I do the following:
- uuencode filename.tar.Z filename.tar.Z > filename.uue
-
- (uuencode the filename...so it decodes with the same name...stash the
- uuencoded output in filename.uue)
-
- >Is there a place where I can get a version of uuencode? I find that I can't
- >transfer files from my SUN to my PC without using uuencode/uudecode. Binary
- >kermit doesn't work for TAR files (compressed).
-
- it does if you set file binary in kermit.
- uuencode/uudecode is in SLS as I recall...look for bin.taz
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