Re: Snail mailing a FAQ?

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Andrew Henry (A.H.Henry@bath.ac.uk)
Tue, 27 Sep 94 13:34:16 BST

>>I would like to ask all of you what your suggestions are. I do
>>*NOT* want to make an exception and start doing something I'll
>>regret. I don't want to have to help someone because their
>>online service is dysfunctional. I am providing online information,
>>and am not in the publishing business.

>Agreed. You *could* also compress the file and uuencode it and send
>the user the compressed/uuencoded file (which should be smaller than
>the original). If they have uuencode/compress at their end.

If you need to send compressed or binary files to inexperienced DOS
users, Geoff Percival (geoffp@viewpont.infocom.co.uk) has written a
batch file which will uuencode a binary file. The clever bit is that
it puts a copy of uudecode at the top, written in a debug script.
This gets unpacked and then decodes the main message.

Practically this means that when you save a mail message with the
batch file to junk.bat and then run it on a DOS machine, it will
unpack itself. If your original file was a self-extracting zip
file, this can be expanded too.

Geoff has given me permission to distribute this file. I've
left it for anonymous ftp at

ftp://mgu.bath.ac.uk/pub/selfe.bat

I can send a copy by e-mail if anyone wants it.

Read the rec.autos.sport list of Andrew Henry
Frequently Asked Questions v1.3 at: A.H.Henry@bath.ac.uk
http://www.bath.ac.uk/~bspahh/rasfaq.html University of Bath, UK
ftp://mgu.bath.ac.uk/pub/rec.autos.sport Sempre Gilles

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