Re: (U) Re: UNZIP program for VM?

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From: Scott (nmi) Mattes
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1992 13:06

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On Thu, 30 Jan 1992 09:11:23 CET Guenter Mueller said:
>I have another question which deals with programs of this kind.
>At the present time we have bitnet AND internet connectivity.
>I think we're leaving BITNET at the end of this year.
>So we can't use SENDFILE in the future.
>Now my question:
>
>If one of my users wants to "send" binary information to a partner on
>a host which has ONLY bitnet connectivity the only possibility is
>to use MAIL. How should he encapsulate the binary information that
>he can send it via MAIL to a VM HOST with only bitnet connectivity?

  If one uses VMARC on the binary file, then UUEncode that you can ship
it via EMAIL quite nicely.  I favor the EXEC I wrote that converts
x'0102' to c'0102'.  This doubles the size of the file, but the file
will never be mangles going Internet to BITNET or vicy versy.

Scott       | No success can compensate for failure in the home. David O. McKay
Mattes      | President 1951-70, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

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