Re: Wanted: UU-En/De-Code

[cdeschu@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Chris Deschu)]

In article <1187.UUL1.3#25274@ace.com>, Luigi <luigi@ace.com> wrote:
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>DA>Where can I find UU-Encode/Decode for an Apple IIGS ?
>DA>Can some please suggest a utility that would allow easy archiving
>DA>which can be shared with an IBM-PC ?
>DA>I'd like to exchange several files with a MS-DOS friend, but
>DA>there does not seem to be a mutual archiver we can share!
>DA>(such as PkZip for the GS, or ShrinkIt for the MS-DOS PC)
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>There are several UUencode and ZIP programs for the IIgs.
>Look for GScii+ which is a NDA for the finder which UUencodes and
>UUdecodes and AAunpacks very nicely.
>(Alternate name for a similar program is Binscii but I recommend GScii)
>GScii even has it's own variation of UUencoding which is neat for only
>between IIgs's...
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>As for ZIP'ing, there are several Apple II programs available which will
>un-ZIP IBM archives: For the GS there is PMP UnZIP and for 8bit II's
>Angel081 is winderful... Angel can actually ZIP files but it's an old
>version... 1.0 I think, but if you really need to, it does work.

Another alternative would be to get a copy of Nulib (a Shrinkit
or NuFX decoder) for the DOS machine. I know it has been ported
to DOS, so it should be on an ftp site somewhere. Nulib will
both create and extract from Shrinkit archives.

There is definitely an Unzip exe for orca/gnome and I'm not positive,
but I think I saw zip too, somewhere.
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