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Re: UUDECODE

To: TheSkinny@aol.com, MIKE_J2@sfov1.verifone.com
Subject: Re: UUDECODE
From: jurrasm@genesis.torrco.com (Mark Jurras)
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 15:34:16 -0400
> Reply-To: "MIKE_J2@SFOV1.VERIFONE.COM" <MIKE_J2@sfov1.verifone.com>
> 
> >I have no idea what UUDECODE is.:
> 
> Think of UUDECODE and UUENCODE as similar to PK-Zip

UUENCODE is a file compression program written by LUCAS. An easy way to
tell LUCAS wrote it is that the compressed result file that is
UUENCODED is actually larger than teh original. Using UUDECODE
'uncompresses' the UUENCODED back to its original size.

- -Mark   = =o&o

:^)

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