Subject: Re: help

From: "Viktor Arvanov [Psychiatry]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 12:57:55 -0500

From:          Self <PSYCHIATRY/VARVANOV>
To:          [email-masked]
Subject:       help
Date:          Wed, 26 Mar 1997 12:32:37 -0500

Hello, my name is Levon.  One of my friends from Europe has 
send me some decoded pictures of him and his family.  I really 
would like to undecode the pictures, however i don't know how
to make this work.  Here is what my friend told me.

1.  First,  He said that he has made three photos in a format.jpg.
2. Second,  He then decoded them in one file( the achiever arj.exe).
3.  Then he has coded a file .arj in ASC2-FORMAT  by using the
     uuencode.exe and broke the file in to seven sections.  The 
     lenght of each section was 30KB.     

To undecode the files he told me to:

1.  Decode files from a format.uue in to a format.arj with the 
     programm called uudecode.exe.
2.  Decode a file photo.arj in a format.jpg by the achiever Orj.exe
3.  Overlook the files on any graphic editor.  

My problem is that:

1.  I don't have the uudecode programm.( how to download?)
2.  I have WIN 95 and I am not sure if the program would work without
     the reall dos.
3.  I can't understand what is the "achiever Orj.exe"

I have spend enormous time triyng to figure this out, however I still 
can't understand how to get an undecoding programm from the net and 
how to make it work.  I would be more than thankfull to you if you could 
help me with my problem.   Thank-you very much and
                                                                  Sorry for taking your time.

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From: Robin S Socha <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 02:38:27 +0100 (CET)

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On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Viktor Arvanov [Psychiatry] wrote:

Standard disclaimer: This is not a pine-related question. You'd better go to
another list/group...

  >Hello, my name is Levon.  One of my friends from Europe has send me some
  >decoded pictures of him and his family. I really would like to undecode
  >the pictures, however i don't know how to make this work. Here is what my
  >friend told me.

[snip]
  >1.  I don't have the uudecode programm.( how to download?)

Take your webbrowser and go to:
	www.yahoo.com
Check the computer/tools/archivers section or thereabouts...

  >2.  I have WIN 95 and I am not sure if the program would work without

Man, you *do* have real Dos. Win95 is Dos 7.0 plus a &"$/& GUI... There is
an arj version that comes with a GUI, too... All you need is a mouse and a
lobotomy.

  >3.  I can't understand what is the "achiever Orj.exe"

It's a tool that (un)compresses files. It also allows you to create "spanned
archives", i.e. break up large files into manageable chunks to send via
email.

So here's what you do:

	1. Save the attachments into a directory (preferrably \tmp).

	2. Get uudecode and arj off the internet.

	3. Put those in your search path. \windows\command would be a good
	   choice.

	4. Say uudecode *.uue.

	5. Say arj x -vy *.arj (this will glue the spanned archives
	   together).

	6. View those files. In case you don't have an image viewer, either, 
	   Netscape can view them. Otherwise grab lview or vueprint off
	   yahoo, too.

  >can't understand how to get an undecoding programm from the net and how
  >to make it work. I would be more than thankfull to you if you could help
  >me with my problem.

Well, while you're at yahoo, get the internet faq... You'll be amazed how
easy all of this is once you know _how_ and _where_ to search for
information.

Did I say that I hate MS?

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Robin S. Socha,
Political Science Dept., Bonn University, Bonn
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Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is NO.

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From: ADAM Sulmicki <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 21:22:55 -0500 (EST)

On Thu, 27 Mar 1997, Robin S Socha wrote:

->Did I say that I hate MS?

Yes, but you did not say what the alternative is :)

(hint: it is spelled  L-I-N-U-X :)

-Adam

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From: Robin S Socha <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 03:46:04 +0100 (CET)

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  >(hint: it is spelled  L-I-N-U-X :)

       On the package it said: "Requires MS Windows 3.11 or better"  
	       			      ...  so I got myself Linux. 

How's that for a start?

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Robin S. Socha,

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From: Robert de Bath <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 20:13:32 +0000 (GMT)

> Sorry for taking your time.    
Well, normally you have to get a uudecode some other way, but this is a 
very neat hack. BTW: I'm assuming you're using MSDOS.

You'll have to stick the 5 parts of the message together manually, normally
a uuencoded file looks like this:

Notice all the lines except the 'begin' and the last 3 begin with an 'M'
and are the same length. This is how the uuencoded file you pass to the
uudecode should look.

Good luck.

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Rob.                           (Robert de Bath <[email-masked]>)

>From [email-masked] Wed Mar 26 20:05:52 1997
Subject: File uudecode.com, as requested
From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 16:35:16 -0500

This is an EXECUTABLE ASCII version of UUDECODE.COM for DOS!  (If you
save the lines below into a DOS file named UUDECODE.COM, you can run
it as is, or send it via e-mail with no encoding.)  The file created
should be 40 lines long and contain 2594 bytes.

Some users have reported that this program locks up their system.  This
is usually because the text editor does not write a CRLF to each line of
the file.  If you have this problem, request "uudecode.bas" by sending
e-mail to [email-masked] with the command "get uudecode.bas"
in the BODY of the note.  This BASIC program will create a UUDECODE.COM
when run with the command: QBASIC /RUN UUDECODE.BAS

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