BMUG Newsletter 1997 Spring/BMUG Spring 1997 Newsletter (1997).bin/Newletter PD Collection/Utilities/Compression/MACUUCODE 1.05 ƒ/MACUUCODE 1.05/MACUUCODE 1.05.rsrc/TEXT_129_Instructions.txt

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Choose Encode from the Code menu to encode a binary file into ASCII for transmission over E-mail systems that don't have the capability of transmitting files or that don't have the capability of transmitting binary files.  Just convert your Excel‚Ñ¢ spreadsheet to ASCII and send it out as mail.

Note that only the data fork is transmitted.  This version does not transmit resource forks.  (Maybe I will make a revision some time in the future.)  So you can't send applications using this method.  You also can't send self-extracting archives this way.  Stuffit‚Ñ¢ files seem to transmit correctly without the resource fork.  MacDraw II‚Ñ¢ files do not not.  Try stuffing or zipping them before using MACUUCODE.  Note that most Microsoft‚Ñ¢ applications create files that are pure data.

Choose Decode from the Code menu to decode an incoming file into binary.  If the file was created with this utility, the file type and file creator will be extracted correctly.