Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!RADC-MULTICS.ARPA!Peck From: Peck@RADC-MULTICS.ARPA (Rodney) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: RE: RE: uudecode Message-ID: <861218032713.598038@RADC-MULTICS.ARPA> Date: Wed, 17-Dec-86 22:27:00 EST Article-I.D.: RADC-MUL.861218032713.598038 Posted: Wed Dec 17 22:27:00 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Dec-86 06:45:43 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 34 mnetor!utzoo!utcsri!utegc!utai!garfield!dalcs!silvert@seismo.css.gov writes: >I have had no trouble whatsoever uudecoding on either a VAX or Wicat >system. Why shouldn't it work? You are only translating codes to >bytes. It may be that the version of uudecode doesn't work right. Right! It doesn't work right! Possible reasons: 1. completely incorrect uudecode algorithm (or incorrectly coded) 2. different uudecode algorithm than the one the file was encoded with 3. hardware complications Multics is strange. It runs on a honeywell DPS-8 I believe. It is a 36 bit system which uses 9 bits for a byte. Its possible that the binary transfer is causing problem because I don't know what it is doing with the ninth bit. Paul Smee (the instigator of this series of messages) is also on a multics system so he will face the same problems as I am. For anyone not familiar with the inner workings of uuencode, there is a bit of bit manipulation going on, and the 9th bit kind of throws a wrench (spanner for you englishmen) into the works. I'm still working on the problem on and off, if I get it working, I'll be sure to annoy everyone around the globe by posting the pl/1 source for uudecode. (maybe encode too) 'cheers', rodney PS: I have three final exams tomorrow so any opinions I may appear to have are those obtained subliminially from constant reading of techniques of integration.... REMEMBER: the integral of V dU = UV - the integral of U dV !