Re: CODED Message: begin 666 body0001.bin

Jon Duckworth (jond@biddeford.com)
Sat, 24 Aug 1996 14:42:01 -0400 (EDT)

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On Sat, 24 Aug 1996, Anton Freijsen wrote:

> I received a coded message with on top of it:
>
> begin 666 body0001.bin
> MV24M
> ..... binary code until the word
> end

It's actually ASCII code, but anyway. . . .

That's uucode, a method of sending binary files in email as ASCII.

> Exists any method with Souper/Yarn089/OS2 to decode this message?

If it's in a newsgroup, you can just hit 'B' and it will decode it. If
you got it in the mail, I don't know (I'm actually using Pine right now).
There are utilities on hobbes and leo for OS/2 to decode them.

>
> Anton
>

Jon
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