SUMMARY2: Problem decoding FTPmail files

From: John Mc Grath (ext_adm!jmcgrath@uunet.UU.NET)
Date: Tue Jan 12 1993 - 17:22:19 CST


After sending the below summary I received many more responses, most
of which referenced the btoa/atob programs. Some even included them.
BUt the reason I am sending out a second summary is that some people
indicated that I could add a uuencode statement in my FTP request and that would force the use of the standard uuencode/uudecode. I haven't
tried this yet but I will.

Additional thanks to:

phyast.nhn.uoknor.edu!feldt (Andy Feldt)
relay.amp.com!amp19263 (John R. Kilheffer)
kwhpc.chi.il.us!hammond (Kevin W. Hammond)
masc38.rice.edu!canuck (Mike Pearlman)
enuucp.eas.asu.edu!titan!rrebello (Rod Rebello )
megadata.mega.oz.au!peters (Peter Samuel)
key.amdahl.com!zeev (Ze'ev Wurman)
dsnsun.ericsson.se!dsnmkey (Martin Kelly)

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>From uunet!ra.mcs.anl.gov!sun-managers-relay Tue Jan 12 07:35:22 1993
Sender: uunet!ra.mcs.anl.gov!sun-managers-relay
From: uunet!ext_adm!jmcgrath (John Mc Grath)
Reply-To: uunet!ext_adm!jmcgrath (John Mc Grath)
Followup-To: junk
To: sun-managers@eecs.nwu.edu
Subject: SUMMARY: Problem decoding FTPmail files

I received three replies within the hour.
Sorry I omitted that I had tried to use uudecode with no luck.
The answer was provided by two of the replies. I needed the "atob"
and "btoa" C programs from PD. Brett Chapman was kind enough to
supply me with a copy. I compiled them and was able to decode the
files with in ten minutes.

Thanks again for the help.

harvard.harvard.edu!adam%bwnmr4 (Adam Shostack)
mine.informatik.uni-kiel.dbp.de!ca (Claus Assmann)
sol.med.ge.com!blc (Brett Chapman x7-4391)

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>From jmcgrath Mon Jan 11 10:32:33 1993
To: uunet!eecs.nwu.edu!sun-managers
Subject: Problem decoding FTPmail files

I am having a great deal of trouble decoding a specific type of file received via FTPmail. I have read and reread my SUN manuals and UUCP books from O'Reilly. Perhaps someone in netland can tell me how to convert the below example to a useable file.
System: SUN SPARCstation IPC
OS: 4.1.1b
Mem: 8 MB

Thanks

[-] (binary uncompressed btoa, last)

xbtoa Begin
+.\L*_T\]p7SXd[BO1[@aKVAULCb\&S4Kno71^;Se>NBL!(Mo'BQX.X,)2&=,ZDRq8E5HH(c5^M=Ga
;;`Y]aKlJ0LfVpCu#K*iVk[&DBI8<F)r=R]_8-=PJi0p@>dRA<r?I^B\#,tO.>5FV4:15=$j/7$DK)
~~~much more of the same~~~~~
DFoprP\MZ%I@N>0RQ$0[/Y1OW]MO_L/Qb%Tnc![csnD/#iS,%6>r@YOLmbmLJIDO\-[K:JS/`=hd&4
1B2S6?'/SV4C[#hSGUI,8)qAh>KY:S@NLz
xbtoa End N 13382 3446 E a2 S 18d39a R aff7ab38

 

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