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- From: MACRIDES@SCI.WFEB.EDU (Foteos Macrides)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: MFTU
- Message-ID: <01GT5K13EESY000MF5@SCI.WFEB.EDU>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 13:59:09 GMT
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- In article <01GT5F5TI3RK00007S@SCI.WFEB.EDU>, Arne Vajhxj <ARNE@KOPC.HHS.DK> writes:
- >> on an old DECUS-tape I found a programm called MFTU. It converts VMS-files
- > into
- >> ASCII text (suitable for electronic mail exchange) and vice versa, preserving
- >> the original VMS file structure.
- [...]
- > Anyway - I think a better method is to use ZIP (the new version do preserve
- > VMS file attributes) to compress the file and use UUENCODE or VMS_SHARE to
- > encode the zip-archive for mailing.
- >
- > Arne
- >
- > Arne Vajhxj local DECNET: KO::ARNE
- > Computer Department PSI: PSI%23831001304030::ARNE
- > Business School of Southern Denmark Internet: ARNE@KO.HHS.DK
-
- I learned this a few weeks ago by asking on vmsnet.sources.d, and
- thought it might be helpful to those who read Arne's message.
-
- Although the current version of VMS_SHARE can encode binary (e.g., ZIP)
- files, if you MFTU the ZIP archive, the subsequent VMS_SHARE set is *much*
- smaller than if you do the VMS_SHAREing directly on the archive.
-
- Fote
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