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Jonathan Herr <herrj@valnet.vincennes.in.us> writes:
> bob@1776.COM (Robert Coe) writes:
> > 
> > This reminds me of something I've been wondering about: how does one get th
> > program that reassembles uuencoded files?  Obviously someone can't just mai
> > you a uuencoded version of the program!  (Well, they could, but what could
> > you do with it?)  Does someone have it available for nMODEM (n=X,Y,Z,...)
> > download?  (Actually, in this case I'd settle for downloading the icon.)  :
> 
> I've wonder how some people get this myself.  I was fortunate to have
> internet access on a campus machine when I started (no longer true),
> 
> If you need, you can call my BBS from 9pm - 7am EST.  The file is in
> the /spool/public/wafutil directory, accessable from the files
> section. 

There is a BASIC program available from the SIMTEL archives to do this
along with an explanation of how to use it.

You email the ASCII basic program, and use it to uudecode the uudecode
binary for your machine (is that recursive or what??)
The uucoding algorithm must be quite simple really.....

BTW: can someone explain the difference between UUcoding and XXcoding?
    I've been looking in news answers, but haven't seen any FAQs which
    cover it yet. ( Or my eyes are painted on. One or the other...:-)
    
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