UUREADME.TXTTEXTmdos$W™*¥?þ*¥?þyB@¨0 Ñ D* WHAT IS A UUENCODED FILE? WHY WOULD I WANT TO MAKE ONE (OR DECODE ONE)? The "uu" file format is used to transmit binary files through electronic mail. It was originally developed for transmission of binary files between Unix machines (UU stands for Unix to Unix), but now is commonly used for all sorts of machines. A uu format file consists of only text characters that are visible to people and that can be safely sent in electronic mail. Binary files have all sorts of invisible characters that won't get through electronic mail. Because the uu format file is restricted to using only text characters, the uu format file will be larger than the binary file from which it was generated. * HOW TO DECODE A "UU" FILE Let's say you have a uuencoded file and want to produce the original binary from it. You might have downloaded this uuencoded file to your PC using a terminal program that is capable of saving text to a file. The file should look something like this: begin 777 page1.lwr M*B!7:&%T(&ES(&$@=75E;F-O9&5D(&9I;&4_("!7:'D@=V]U;&0@22!W86YT M('1O(&UA:V4@;VYE("AO page1.uu (Yes, you have to type the original filename twice.) When you're done, you'll have a text file (page1.uu in this example) that you can send as electronic mail (perhaps using a terminal program which allows you to insert the text from a file). ˜‹ø‹Ç= tãƒÿ tÞƒ~ö}éœÆ*Fƒ~øt);~øuÇFøëMƒÿ*tƒÿ?t ƒÿ[tƒÿ\u4Æ\FÿFúë+ƒÿ"tƒÿ'u‰~øë!ƒÿ*tƒÿ?tƒÿ[