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In article <16592@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> jmorton@euler.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (John Willard Morton) writes:
>In article <1986Dec9.181700.26559@utcs.uucp> sikorski@utcs.uucp (//TED) writes:
>>
>>I am relatively new to this newsgroup and as yet do not have a program
>>called ARC. 
>
>	Looks like this is a good time to ask that a description of
>	the purpose of ARC and uuencode/decode be posted, together
>	with basic instructions for using them.  And BTW what is
>	Uniterm?

ARC is a file compression/archiving program that usually saves you around
40-55% disk space over non-arced files. Pretty sophisticated program, uses
one of several compression schemes to save things in the right way for the
file type. I like it, it turns a box of disks into 2 boxes as far as I'm
concerned.

uuencode and uudecode are file EXPANSION programs that turn binary files into
ascii files for e-mail via uucp, thus the name. It causes problems sometimes
because people ignore the uu (UNIX-to-UNIX) in the names of the programs and
send uuencoded files through brain-damaged IBM systems that alter some of the
character set used by uuencode. Usually uudecode works on UNIX machines, but
lots of people have problems porting it to some foreign OS like TOS.

As far as instructions on use, see the man page for uu{en,de}code. For arc,
invoke the arc.ttp program & type h on the command line. It's useful.

Uniterm is a GREAT public domain terminal emulator written by Simon Poole that
emulates VT102 and Tektronix 4110 quite well, enough for a friend of mine to
use for his graphics homework using the tek and for me to discard PC/InterComm,
which doesn't do the VT102 as well... Get it from somewhere, you'll be
impressed. Latest version is 1.6e.

-Leo

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