Conference hydra::amiga_v1

    
    
    	First it has to be defined as a foriegn command 
    ie uue :== `disk`:[`acount`]uuencode.exe
    
    and this then converts binary files to ascii type files for
    transmitting over networks that don't like binary files....

    RE: .1  I am well beyond that point. There doesn't appear to be
            any documentation. Perhaps you can tell me what the correct
            command syntax is?

    uuencode filename.ext filename.uue
    
    Isn't there documentation in the AmigaUUCP 1.XXD distribution?
    
    Wes

    RE: .3   Have you actually tried that command line?

I just picked up another version of uudecode.  I compiled this for VMS V5.4 and
have been using it for a few weeks now.  This version has the advantage of 
allowing you to just copy multi-part uue files in the correct order WITHOUT
having to strip headers and other noise characters.

Anyway, If you would like to give it a shot I've put a copy on 

Directory CSSE32::NOTESPUBLIC:[PUBLIC]

MYUUD.LZH;1          (RWED,RWED,RWED,RWED)


The archive includes a short doc, the c source and a VMS .exe

Enjoy,

...Ed

    re: .4 have I actually tried that command line?
    
    Yes, in the time between reading your note and replying to it.  Now,
    since I don't even remember where I found my version, it may differ
    from yours.
    
    re: .5 uudecoder which handles multipart, divided postings.
             ^^
    Hallelujah!

FWIW, this is the DOC I have used with uuencode.exe & uudecode.exe:

--------------------------------------------------------------------
Modified once more to compile with Microsoft C V3.00, and VAX/VMS.
The CI86 code is still there, surrounded with #ifdef CI86...#endif

Usage is:
        uuencode [input [output] ]
                if output not specified, write to stdout
                if input not specified, get input from stdin
        uudecode [input]
                if input not specified, get input from stdin

WARNING: Current restriction on VAX/VMS:  ASCII text files get
all CR/LF combinations converted to LF only during UUENCODE.
This should not be a major problem, as ASCII text files should
not need to be "encoded".

Also note that the return status is not consistent with VAX/VMS
usage, although the error messages should be OK.

Gary Stebbins, DEC, 8/31/86
==============================================================================
The files described in the following paragraphs have been modified
for and compiled under Computer Innovations C86.  Note that when
uuencoding a binary file, you must not feed the file to uuencode
through stdin--for some reason, this causes the file to only be
partially encoded (I suspect that this happens when uuencode runs
into a ^Z in the input--I have played around with putting stdin into
'raw' mode, which failed to successfully correct the problem).  So
when uuencoding binary files, use the full two-argument form.  Note
that uudecode is unaffected.

Brant Cheikes
Department of Computer and Information Science
University of Pennsylvania
ARPA:  [email protected]
CSNET: brant%[email protected]
==============================================================================
 
uudecode and uuencode are easily implemented under MSDOS as well.  Here
are the sources for Microsoft C v3.0, but if you have another kind of C
compiler, there should be perhaps only 1 change -- the output file of
uudecode and the input file of uuencode must be in binary format.
(ie.  binary files, like .EXE files may have byte patterns that are the
same as ^Z, which signals end-of-file in non-binary (text) mode).

If you need more info, write back.  Note that the included files are
*not* in "shar" format -- you will have to use an editor to cut the
files out.

        Don Kneller
UUCP:   ...ucbvax!ucsfcgl!kneller
ARPA:   [email protected]
BITNET: [email protected]

                
    I am getting a NOMSG error at the end of the compilation.
    
    I have tried both UUENCODE infile outfile
    
    and,
    
    UUENCODE infile >outfile
    
    Perhaps someone can point me to a source that works for them?
    
    
    
                                     

    Paul,
    
    You may be just running into one of the peculiarities of VAX C.  The
    standard way to exit a C program is 
    
    	exit(0);
    
    However, in VAX C the standard way to exit a program with no concluding
    message is
    
        exit(1);
    
    Let me suggest the following test...  Starting with a text file
    "in.file;1" do the following
    
        uuencode in.file out.file
        uudecode out.file
        cvtarc u in.file
        diff in.file;3 in.file;1
    
    You should get back a message that there are no differences.  My
    advice...  NOMSG is no message - if the round-trip test works, ignore
    the message.

	Hi I am trying to make this work, too.  I had one that output
	directly to the screen
	$ uuencode file
	so in batch mode the output would be captured in the log file.
	I havn't made uuencode do the whole route yet though.  Maybe 2nite.
	I also wrote a funny program that
	converts binary nybbles into hexadecimal ASCII for transfers.
	That's for small things if you're desperate.
	You'd have to compile it on the Amiga.
	Tom

    RE: .9  Can't ... no outfile is created.

       At $ prompt:
       
       $ DEFINE/USER SYS$OUTPUT FOO.UU
       $ UUENCODE FOO.TXT FOO.TXT
       
       This will create FOO.UU, when decoded would recreate FOO.TXT
       
       I have uuencode defined in my login.com as:
       
       $ uuencode       :==$mydisk:[mydir]uuencode.exe
       
       Art
       

    
    
    Just to throw a spanner in the works you could use SHAR from WJG
    
    this converts both from ASCII to Binary and Binary to ASCII
    
    ie if you have seen the output from some of the usenet binary
    conferences..
    
    
    	Steve G

	I found a combination that seems to work on one little file.
	whew.  
	dfn8ly::disk$user:[janzen.public]uuencode.lzh
	unpack it on the VAX, send over the uudecode.c to the amigaand
	compile it.  with SAS or Lattice.  Ignore the warnings.
	This is from Fred Fish.

	For the encoder, you can use the UUENCODE.EXE in the same directory.
	Define it foreign
	uuencode :== disk:[dir]uuencode.exe

	Just get ready to capture a text file and type
	$ uuencode file

	Then after the ascii capture, type on the Amiga after compiling
	and linking uudecode, 
	CLI>uudecode file.
	NOte that this will unpack the encoded filename reagardless of
	what file namethe file has on the amiga.  so to speak.
	Tom

    
    
    The amiga has had UUJoin and UUSplit in the UUCP release for
    a long time now.
    
	shar is I believe different to UUEncode/UUDecode.
    
    Did you get a result, ie convert a file eventually ?
    I can't believe how convoluted some of the ways UUEncode is being
    used to get an encoded file.
    
    
    				-Pete-