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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