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From: mi@cs.bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin)
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Subject: Re: Question about uuencode/decode
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Date: 28 May 1995 17:18:45 GMT
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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
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