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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:16625 comp.unix.questions:64922 comp.unix.misc:17125 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.bu.edu!mi From: mi@cs.bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.misc Subject: Re: Question about uuencode/decode Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.misc Date: 28 May 1995 17:18:45 GMT Organization: Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA Lines: 14 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3qab9l$acs@news.bu.edu> References: <3pbjji$9t6@galaxy.cs.ucsb.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: csb.bu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Sitting, working. Suddenly realized that Gene Kostruba wrote: : Hello, : I am trying to download a uuencoded file from a Unix system to my PC. I am : using Procomm Plus 2.01 for DOS, and kermit. The file, call it x.zip, is : uuencoded on Unix as "uuencode x.zip x.zip > x.uue", with the corresponding 35% Why bother uuencodeing when the software you described can perfectly let you download binary files? You'll even save some time (not the whole 35%, but plenty)... -mi -- Cat is somewhere around... * Кот где-то неподалёку... "Computer hackers do it all night long."