Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!umd5!purdue!decwrl!ucbvax!ucsd!sdcsvax!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!hplabs!sdcrdcf!trwrb!arenberg
From: arenberg@trwrb.UUCP (Jeff Arenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: uuencode/uudecode anyone? (was: GS Programs. . . Please!)
Message-ID: <790@trwcsed.trwrb.UUCP>
Date: 5 May 88 21:47:52 GMT
References: <9165@reed.UUCP> <537@n8emr.UUCP> <9621@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: arenberg@trwcsed.UUCP (Jeff Arenberg)
Organization: TRW EDS, Redondo Beach, CA
Lines: 25
Keywords: keywords

In article <9621@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> laba-4an@web3a.berkeley.edu.UUCP (Andy McFadden) writes:
>Bitnet mail gets hosed by 6 bit encoding.  Perhaps someone could explain
>the [lack of] virtues for uuencode/atob.  Of course, a primary reason for
>not using uuencode is that most people don't have uudecode for their
>Apple, and who wants to worry about UNIX fudging their binaries?
>
>laba-4an@widow.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden)
>
>"Remember, mailers are people too."

Last night I downloaded the C source code for uuencode and uudecode from
simtel-20.arpa  ( Files are in pd1: ) and I was playing
around trying to get them running under APW C.  The code is very short and
pretty simple, but it uses Unix file commands, so rewriting it to use prodos
and presumably the Basic interface would take a little work.  I'm curious
is anyone would like to see this as a utility.  I haven't had any problems
with Executioner.  If anyone has any real good reasons why uuencoded
material is better, please speak up.

Jeff Arenberg
------------------------------------------------------------
UUCP : ( ucbvax, ihnp4, uscvax ) !trwrb!trwcsed!arenberg
ARPA : jarenberg@ecla.usc.edu
GEnie: shifty
------------------------------------------------------------