Re: LZ: Attatchments


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Re: LZ: Attatchments



Max Mansour wrote:
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> > From: Patrick Sweeney <psweeney@geocities.com>
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> > This message is like yogurt, the new stuff is on the bottom!
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> > Zenon Lynx wrote:
> > > Please note, all, that UUE is not the best way to attatch a file.  I do
> > > have a UUDecoder but it will sometimes not decode the files (such as
> the
> > > Boulder Dash...I still haven't got that yet!!) and sometimes it will.
> If
> > > at all possible, please ZIP them instead.  Thank you.
> > >
> > > "Honors Master PhD of Idea Engineering"
> > > -= Zenon@bbs.nexes.com =-
> > There is a good reason for that.  I had the same problem.  The file is
> > really a .ZIP file with a .UUE extension.  Just rename it to bd.zip and
> > use pkunzip on the darn thing.
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> No, it's not.  You're using a mail reader which automagicly uuedecodes the
> file (see my prev post).  A zip file is a binary (8bit) file, while a uue
> is a 7bit ascii file.
Not True.  Usually when a file with a UUE extension comes through I have
to save it and run it through WINCODE which converts it.  This already
was.  The file was sent in a Binary format, although it should not have
worked, it did.
Patrick
psweeney@geocities.com


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