From: vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan)
Subject: Re: [Q] how to use uu{en,de}code ?
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 19:34:12 GMT
ron@argus.lpl.Arizona.EDU (Ron Watkins) writes:
>2) When I try to use uuencode, I get error messages consistend with uudecode.
>Errors included, "No begin line" "No end line" ... Typical stuff if you are
>indeed trying to use uudecode, but I was using uuencode.
I do the following:
uuencode filename.tar.Z filename.tar.Z > filename.uue
(uuencode the filename...so it decodes with the same name...stash the
uuencoded output in filename.uue)
>Is there a place where I can get a version of uuencode? I find that I can't
>transfer files from my SUN to my PC without using uuencode/uudecode. Binary
>kermit doesn't work for TAR files (compressed).
it does if you set file binary in kermit.
uuencode/uudecode is in SLS as I recall...look for bin.taz
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