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mnetor!utzoo!utcsri!utegc!utai!garfield!dalcs!silvert@seismo.css.gov writes:

>I have had no trouble whatsoever uudecoding on either a VAX or Wicat
>system.  Why shouldn't it work?  You are only translating codes to
>bytes.  It may be that the version of uudecode doesn't work right.

  Right! It doesn't work right!
  
   Possible reasons:
  1. completely incorrect uudecode algorithm (or incorrectly coded)
  2. different uudecode algorithm than the one the file was encoded with
  3. hardware complications
       Multics is strange. It runs on a honeywell DPS-8 I believe. It is
a 36 bit system which uses 9 bits for a byte. Its possible that the binary 
transfer is causing problem because I don't know what it is doing with the
ninth bit.
       Paul Smee (the instigator of this series of messages) is also on a
multics system so he will face the same problems as I am.
       For anyone not familiar with the inner workings of uuencode, there
is a bit of bit manipulation going on, and the 9th bit kind of throws a 
wrench (spanner for you englishmen) into the works.
       
       I'm still working on the problem on and off, if I get it working,
I'll be sure to annoy everyone around the globe by posting the pl/1 source
for uudecode. (maybe encode too)

     'cheers', 
   rodney


PS:  I have three final exams tomorrow so any opinions I may appear to have
     are those obtained subliminially from constant reading of techniques
     of integration....
   REMEMBER:  the integral of V dU = UV - the integral of U dV !