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I'm sorry people have had so much trouble with my encoded files. I have
xx-encoded both CPGTOCS.ZIP and OVLISTS.ZIP again, checked that they
decoded okay with my decoder, and uploaded them anew.

To repeat what a couple of people have already said: you need to save them
as Ascii (text), with the extension .xxe, then (in DOS), do 'xxdecode
cpgtocs.xxe'; or else feed them to your Windows decoder (I use a shareware
en/decoder called Xferpro). This will result in zip file, which you feed
to Winzip (or do PKunzip in DOS).

It may be that if you're not using Xferpro or the like, you have to take
the header junk off the files by hand. The xxencoded part begins with the
word 'begin,' and ends (this is from memory) 'end xxxxx.zip'.

I have also MIME encoded them, using Xferpro, and uploaded the MMe files.
I'm not sure how to incorporate them into an email. I use Pine, but it has
NO information about how to do attachments. So I'll just feed them into
otherwise empty email files via Pine's Read File command. This has worked
in the past for XXEs. Those of you, now the majority, it seems, who use
MIME can let me know if this doesn't work.

The reason I sound so vague is that the university server here has no
information, accessible to those not already in the know, about how to use
MIME. Nor does Pine. As a result, I can't decode files uploaded to the
list in MIME; so I don't use it.

If these 4 files (2 mme, 2 xxe) aare still unusable, could people let me
know at my other email address (mary_bernard@compuserve.com) and I'll send
them from there? It's a lot easier; uploading these 4 files to the server
took the best part of an hour. My software is primitive and recalcitrant
when uploading, though fine in most respects.


Best regards

Mary

Mary Bernard
<if10000@cus.cam.ac.uk>