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From: silvert@dalcs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: uuencodeded uudecode program is here.
Message-ID: <2124@dalcs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 12-Dec-86 06:26:55 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 12 06:26:55 1986
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Reply-To: silvert@dalcs.UUCP (Bill Silvert)
Organization: Marine Ecology Lab.
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Keywords: UUDECODE on host works

>Finally, one note.  Based on conversations over here, it appears that porting
>stuff to the ST by UUDECODEing on a mainframe and then binary xfering the
>result is quite likely not to work, for reasons which no-one I know of has
>worked out.  I've never seen any problems though if you ASCII port to the ST
>and then UUDECODE there.

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.

I always uudecode as early in the transfer process as possible to reduce
the size of files being transferred (I receive mail on a VAX, uucp to my
Wicat, and xmodem to the ST).