Very Computer

Can someone tell me how you guys (and gals) are sending and receiving
these file of code. Someone sent me a responce in this newsgroup once and
I thought it was just some screw-up. But since then I have seen some
messages like Doug's on "PAR source code".

Am I missing something, or just dumb?

Thanks much for any guidence

Andy Gopcevic

Andy Gopcevic

If you see some strange lines that say

--- begin
or
--- cut here
or
--- just about anything followed by lots of strange looking hex characters,
you are the proud recipient of an included document that has been UUE (I
think) encoded.  I do not know what UUE means - except maybe the E is for
encoded.  

What you have to do is to decode the UUE stuff back to whatever file it was
originally intended to occupy.  You can do this with several UUE
decoder/encoders, but if you are lazy like I am, then just visit Microsoft
and download one of their versions of the Microsoft Exploreres.  Now, when
I receive a document that has an included encoded document or picture,
etc., I see a paper clip in the upper right hand corner of the text window.
 Clicking on that icon lets me view the document/picture/etc and save it to
disk if i desire.

Good Luck,
Larry Hazel

You need a program called UUDECODE to convert these files back to
binary (also UUENCODE to create them).  These conversions may be
handled automatically by some news & mail readers, so check your setup
options, online help etc. for anything like these commands.

Les.

//\\ Les Ferguson      www.i-max.co.nz/~lhf             //\\

Hi!

Thanks in advance.