Subject: uudecode

From: morrison <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 20:32:06 -0400

Can someone give me a non-techy step-by-step process for undecoding messages which I 
receive on Pine which require uudecode?  I tried downloading uudecode from the web and 
tried it on a lengthy message.  All I got was a new bunch of undecipherable characters. 
The syntax for the file I downloaded was uudecode <filename> ENTER.  Didn't work.  
Perhaps there is a menu driven program??  Any information would be appreciated.  Thank 
you. [email-masked]  George Morrison 240 Macy Road, Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510.  My 
local provider Cloud 9 seems unable to assist.

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From: Jean Pierre LeJacq <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 16:23:02 -0400 (EDT)

On Sat, 20 Apr 1996, morrison wrote:

> Can someone give me a non-techy step-by-step process for
> undecoding messages which I receive on Pine which require
> uudecode?  I tried downloading uudecode from the web and tried
> it on a lengthy message.  All I got was a new bunch of
> undecipherable characters.
> ...

Assuming you're on a Unix system:

  1  Save the message or attachment as a file, say "file.uu".

  2  From the shell prompt, edit "file.uu" and remove the all
     lines before the one that start with "begin 644" and all
     after the line that begins with "end".

  3  uudecode file.uu

--- Jean Pierre

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From: [email-masked] (Jie Yuan)
Date: 23 Apr 1996 12:30:29 GMT

>     after the line that begins with "end".

I think you can skip step 2.  Modern uudecode program can ignore
all the leading lines and decode the file just fine.  For example,
I have saved some usenet news articles (images) and uudecoded them 
without stripping the headers manually.  Mail headers can be 
ignored the same way.

Jie
-- Jie Yuan, PhD - U. Cincinnati - Pharmacology & C.B. --
== POBox 670575, Cin., OH 45267-0575  =  513-558-2352  ==
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From: Dave Preisendanz <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 12:06:21 -0400

I use an excellent little shareware program for DOS called uud.exe.  You
should be able to find this on many BBS and on the commercial services.
When viewing a uuencoded file in pine usenet, I (E)xport it to my local
directory, then download it to my own computer.  Then I just type
"uud filename.ext" and bam, it's done.  This program strips the pre-file
text, and automatically handles multi-part files.  It's the best and
easiest I've seen.

Let me know if this works for you.

"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain"

Dave Preisendanz