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Re: Binary dowload via WWW4

sun zoom spark
Tue, 30 Jan 2007 06:30:13 -0800

Hello accmailers ...

On 27 Jan 2007 at 6:20, Szigy wrote:
>  2. UU decoding is done manualy with the MS-DOS UU decoder
>     but first I do check visualy the coded files, the
>     lines start always with an 'M' and do have the same
>     number of characters in each line.
>  3. The used adress was:
>     http://www.ve1alq.com/downloads/software/Zcalculator.exe

I have no explanation for Szigy's problem, but I really don't think
it is anything to do with www4mail.

I have tried many variations on the same binary download, but the
only problem I had was when I saved uuencoded files from MS Outlook.

The easiest method (in Windows XP) was this ...

1. Use www4mail commands
   GETSIZE 50000
   XUUENCODE
   XUUDEVIEW

2. Use Pegasus Mail to save the six returned emails into one file.

3. Use Uud32.exe (UUDeview) to extract the split binary into six
   part files (all with type .zip).

4. Use binary copy to create a temporary zip file, eg:
   copy /b zcalculator.exe.zip + ... + zcalculator.exe_005.zip tmp.zip

5. Unzip tmp.zip to obtain Zcalculator.exe.bin

6. Rename Zcalculator.exe.bin to Zcalculator.exe


Of course, Szigy can't do it that way in his MS-DOS system. My
suggestion is to check that the MS-DOS equivalents of steps 4 and 5
are correct.

By the way, the resulting binary 'Zcalculator.exe' is a Win32
executable. It won't run under DOS.

::: SZS :::

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