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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 11:08:01 EST
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- From: Mark Heinicke <mark@GEOG5.UMD.EDU>
- Subject: Re: FTP
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- More on compressed files (re: Jay Morgan) after reading Duane Marble's
- reply to same: uuencode is used to convert binary file into ASCII file
- that can be sent by mail; uudecode converts back into binary. An ftp'ed
- file might be ASCII *or* binary. What you might have is something
- that was first compressed in Unix via "compress"--leaving a "[something].Z"
- file, then "uuencoded" into ASCII form (and would probably have a
- ".Z" suffix at discretion of user), in which case it would first have to
- be "uudecoded" and then uncompressed (into into its binary form, if that's
- what it was). How this is done on PC's I dunno.
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- Mark Heinicke
- Dept. of Geography
- University of Maryland at College Park
- mark@geog5.umd.edu
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