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Article #1748Re: Uudecoding problems
From: Bill Silvert
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1989 00:29
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1989 00:29
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In article <8906121914.AA15703@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> USQB015@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK (Mark Powell) writes:
>Anyway, the moral of the story is...
>KEEP AWAY FROM UNIX UUDECODERS (IT'LL ALL END IN TEARS!)
>USE A HOME GROWN ST DECODER INSTEAD
Although UUD was developed for the ST, it compiles and runs fine on Unix
systems. I do all my decoding on Unix so that I only have the shorter
binary files to download.
The only change needed is to use printf instead of the Dumas call to a
TOS-specific output routine. Easily done with ifdef's
--
Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division.
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada B2Y 4A2
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!cs.dal.ca!silvert From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Uudecoding problems Summary: UUD runs on Unix Message-ID: <3297@cs.dal.ca> Date: 13 Jun 89 00:29:29 GMT References: <8906121914.AA15703@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Reply-To: bill@biomel.UUCP Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography Lines: 17