Re: LZ: Attatchments
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> From: Patrick Sweeney <psweeney@geocities.com>
>
> This message is like yogurt, the new stuff is on the bottom!
>
> 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.
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.
> Patrick
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