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- Notes on using the !UUDecoder application.
-
- The decoder will cope with multiple section files, and attempts to handle
- them intelligently.
- Once a file has been dropped onto the !UUDecode icon, the decoder will
- attempt to process a family of files based around the 'dropped' filename.
-
- It firstly checks the supplied filename for a 'begin' or a 'section' line.
-
- If a 'begin' is found first, the file is assumed to be in a single chunk,
- and is decoded.
-
- If a 'section' is found, the "of" figure is noted (e.g. if 'section 2 of 7'
- is found, 7 is remembered), call this <max section>.
-
- Then, for each section needed, the decoder searches firstly the 'dropped'
- filename. If the required section is not found, the decoder rips off any
- numeric characters from the right hand end of the 'dropped' filename, and
- searches this 'root' filename with '1' to '<max section>' appended.
-
- An example is worth 1k words ....
-
- Drop MAIL onto the icon. The decoder finds 'section 1 of 3' in the file.
- It searches the following files for each of the 3 sections:
- MAIL, MAIL1, MAIL2, MAIL3.
-
- The beauty of this system (ok, ok, so modesty was never my strong point!)
- is that the sections can be in separate files or combined in fewer files,
- and can be in any order! This makes decoding files downloaded in chunks from
- a BBS very much easier.
-
- The speed of decoding is reduced, but you don't get owt fer nowt (as we
- say in North London).