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From: keithe@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: [uudecoding] procomm docs
Message-ID: <3994@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM>
Date: 26 Sep 88 16:16:57 GMT
References: <13962@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <2047@cuuxb.ATT.COM> <1825@spdcc.COM <9316@cup.portal.com> <1921@spdcc.COM>
Reply-To: keithe@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
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Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <1921@spdcc.COM> eli@spdcc.COM (Steve Elias) writes:
>>the docs for Procomm 2.4.2 follow in next message in UUENCODE format.
>
>	...200k of documentation that is available elsewhere.
>	i downloaded the file and my uudecode barfed on it.
>

Ummm, this was one of the more interesting uudecode challenges to
come down the pike for a while! As I recall, I had to do the
following to extract the stuff:

	Delete the first couple of lines that appear to be some kind
	of a translation table.

	Remove the last character of every line (always lowercase
	alphabetic characters

	(Optionally) change all of the embedded blanks to ` (back-
	quote) characters.

	Download to MS-DOS machine (binary mode if using a file
	transfer program - but I use PC-NFS so it's all transparent)

	Use Richard Mark's UUDECODE. (Another version may work; but
	this one is _the_ _best_.)

	Find someplace to stash it all.

	Ruminate on what uuencode program could've created such an
	archive...

keith