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- From: jrd@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.SYMBOLICS.COM (John R. Dunning)
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- Subject: Help! Uudecode/Yau.com
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- Date: 6 Sep 92 17:22:00 GMT
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- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 13:32 EDT
- From: news.mentorg.com!caeco!neb!bbs@uunet.uu.net (BBS System 801-967-8072)
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- I've just requested two files (and received them) from the Atari
- archives at umich.edu. Problem is this: One file (raindemo.arc) came to
- me in several parts (about 4, I believe). I had the system send them to
- me, received them to hard drive on my Atari 800xl. Now, how do I turn
- those 4 parts into one functional .arc file? Running Yau.com, it tells
- me, cant read header (or something of that nature). Do I need to /a
- append the 4 files to one another in sequence - thereby creating ONE
- file (out of 4), then run Yau.com on them?
-
- Essentially, yes. The uuencoder in use at the archive splits the file
- up, to avoid croaking mailers along the way.
-
- However, you need not go through lots of pain hacking text files if you
- don't want to. The uuencoder and companion decoder that treat files
- that way are written in C, and run on all kinds of things. I compiled
- them up with CC65 a while ago, mostly as an example of how to port
- programs to CC65. Look in the cc65/ subdirectory of the archives, for a
- file called dumasuu.arc. Save the various pieces of uue file as
- foo.uaa, foo.uab etc, then run the Dumas uudecoder on the first one. It
- should pick up the rest.
-
- This decoder and encoder aren't as fast as YAU and YAUE, but they are
- more general.
-