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- Fri 29 Jan 93 8:34
- By: Yousuf Khan
- To: All
- Re: FAQ: UUDecoding
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-
- UUEncoding/Decoding is a method for representing a series of eight bit
- binary characters in a series of six bit equivalents. This is to allow
- transmission of all characters without using any characters that might
- be considered control characters by the transmission system. You may use
- UUEncoding to broadcast binary files over this Fidonet echo, provided
- that it isn't too large. In general, if you have to break up the encoded
- file over two or more messages, then it's probably too big. In that case
- you should make the binary file available for downloading or f'req'ing
- from a BBS system. Also the preferred method of transmission over the
- echo is assembler source code. If that is impractical, then you may
- encode the binary file in a Dos' Debug script format. And finally you
- may try UUEncoding, before going to the download/file request path.
-
- Below is a Debug script of a free UUDecoder, written by David
- Kirschbaum, so one may decode any UUEncoded scripts that might by
- transmitted over this echo:
-
-
- ;; Look for UUD20.COM in the snippets
-
-
- Fri 29 Jan 93 8:34
- By: Yousuf Khan
- To: All
- Re: FAQ: UUEncoding
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Below you will see an example of what an UUEncoded script looks like.
- The example below is in fact an UUEncoding of a free UUEncoder program,
- written by David Kirschbaum. The complete archive, with executables,
- source code, and documentation is available from the author and many
- other sites. So after you've captured this message, you may use the free
- UUDecoder program from the previous message to decode the script below,
- and you will be able to make your own UUEncoded files from now on.
-
- To create the executable from the script, you would run the UUDecoder
- from the DOS command line like this:
-
- UUD20 script
-
- Where "script" is filename and extension of the script without the
- quotes.
-
- After creating the UUEncoder, you can begin creating UUEncoded files of
- your own, you would do this from the command line:
-
- UUE20 source > destination
-
- Where "source" is the filename and extension of whatever you are trying
- to encode, while the "destination" is the name of the final encoded
- script.
-
- Here's the script of the UUEncoder, to decode simply remove all
- descriptive text above the double line:
-
-
- ;; Look for UUE20.COM in the snippets
-