how do I convert files which are in the "begin - ascii text - end" form

[Ed Nather]

In article <239 at cblpe.UUCP>, jrm at cblpe.UUCP (John Miller) writes:
> Sorry to be so ignorant, but people are putting ".com" and ".exe"
> files into a special format for the purpose of transmisson. The form is:
> 
> 
> 
> begin 644 doggie.com
> M_+P``:$"`(S+*\/VQ/!T!;C__^L$L033X*/Y(RT4*G(%/0`!<RRZ6"/IN@#[
> 		.
> 		.
> 		.
> end
> 
> How do I make this an executable file again?

The file has been encoded with "uuencode" so it can pass through systems
that only transmit 7 bit codes.  To recover the original files so encoded,
feed the file (with any message headers & trailers removed) to the
program "uudecode."  

Copies of both "uuencode" and "uudecode" are available in net.sources which
run on Vaxen with Unix, MS-DOS machines, and maybe others.

-- 
Ed Nather
Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin
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