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Re: zip'ped files

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From: rais... Hank Lee
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 1996 00:00
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On 3 Jan 1996 16:52:20 -0500, f...@ixc.ixc.net (Steven B. Fay) wrote:

>
>Can someone tell me how I can D/L zipped files (PUD) here?  One thing worth
>mentioning, I use a non-graphical mail reader that is strictly a unix system
>I dial.  Can I do this?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>f...@ixc.net
>

Save the message to a file named textfile.txt or something. Then exit mail (or
pine, or whichever mail reader), and type the following:

uudecode textfile.txt > outfile.zip

That should recreate the ZIP file.  If the zip file was MIMEd, you'd need to
use pine to restore it.
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From: rais...@sfsu.edu (Hank Lee)
Subject: Re: zip'ped files
Date: 1996/01/07
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