Re: GSCII via e-mail?

[taob@ionews.io.org (Brian Tao)]

In article <14JAN199418502340@jetson.uh.edu>, Fretz, David writes...
> 
> Why don't you get the archive put it in it's uncompressed form then make
> it into a self extracting archive.  Then upload it to your host
> computer, uuencode it  and then send it.  Then have your friend uudecode
> code it and then download it. Then all he has to do once it is on his
> computer is double click on it.

    Not so fast.  Make sure you upload the SEA with a Binary II wrapper,
and that the friend downloads the file (after uudecoding it) with Binary
II processing active.  Only then will you get a file with the proper
file/auxtype and length to run as an application.
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