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  • UUENCODE/UUDECODE facilities on Biomch-L

    Dear Biomch-L readers,

    Up to now, the Biomch-L fileserver utilities have been for ASCII-formatted
    files only. As of this morning, a number of UUENCODE/UUDECODE utilities
    for processing binary data are available, which can be retrieved with the
    standard LISTSERVer command:

    SEND file_name file_type BIOMCH-L

    either interactively (BITNET only) or in the main body of an email note
    to LISTSERV@HEARN.BITNET or LISTSERV@NIC.SURFNET.NL. Since there may be
    incompatible versions available via other lists at HEARN.BITNET, the list-
    name BIOMCH-L should *not* be omitted in this command, lest you might inad-
    vertedly retrieve another version. The following files from the Public
    Domain SIMTEL database are available:

    UUENCDEC DOC Documentation for both UUENCODE and UUDECODE
    UUDECODE BAS A BASIC program for use on an IBM-compatible PC for
    generating a PC program UUDECODE.COM for decoding
    UUENCODE UUE A UUENCODEd version of PC program UUENCODE.COM, to
    be decoded with program UUDECODE.COM

    I hope that the availability of these tools will result in more users making
    available (draft) reports even if typeset with non-ASCII characters as in
    Word-Perfect, MS-Words, etc. Since there are various incompatible versions
    of UUENCODE/UUDECODE, I would suggest that any non-ASCII items offered for
    storage on the Biomch-L fileserver be UUENCODEd with the present version before
    being submitted to any of the three moderators. Similarly, retrieved UUENCODEd
    items from the Biomch-L fileserver should be processed with UUDECODE.COM as
    created according to the instruction above.

    At some future time, I hope to provide similar utilities for the Macintosh
    (BINHEX) and for other systems if there is sufficient demand for them.

    With kind regards -- Herman J. Woltring, Eindhoven/NL
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