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- This is a quick hack for the Mac based upon source code which I found in
- comp.sources.something. (The something is either unix, misc, or amiga, I
- no longer recall which.) It is not at all Mac-like in its behavior, and
- uses the LightSpeed C unix.main.c to provide a command-line-style human
- interface. (I SAID it was a quick hack.)
-
- I find it easiest to drag the application into the folder which contains
- the input file before opening the application. That way, the output will
- wind up in the same folder. When prompted for the command line, type
- everything that you would have typed if you were running the program under
- Unix (tm), except the name of the program itself, which is supplied
- automatically. See the enclosed Unix-style manual page (uuencode.1) for
- more information about uuencode and uudecode.
-
- By the way, I've used uudecode, and it works, but I cannot swear by
- uuencode. I included it only for completeness. uudecode produces a
- data fork which is byte-for-byte identical to what you would get on a
- Unix system. In particular, we do NOT translate Unix linefeeds into
- Mac carriage returns, on the assumption that we are probably dealing
- with a binary file, such as the output of the Unix utility compress.
-
- Christopher T Jewell (chrisj@cup.portal.com)
-