Date:         Wed, 6 Jan 93 10:41:00 PST
From:         William Bodiford <IBFBWMB@UCLAMVS.BITNET>
Subject: RE: default and UU/XX format
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.notabene

I second Rip Lhamon's statements.  Last year I sent several days each week
for three weeks trying to solve the mysteries of uu/xx coding, zip & unzip,
as well as FTP.  It didn't help that no one at the computer support center
had every used uu/xx or zip compression before.  To make matters worse, the
e-mail system here does not allow one to receive files directly.  Only
standard e-mail goes through.  Anything ordered from another computer must
be obtained through a laborious RECEIVE command proceedure that even the
compter wiz's find difficult to use.
    In the end I gave up.  I had spent too much time with too little results.
I still cannot use uu/xx decoding or unzip files (I get error messages every
time).
   Please, please, please post discriptions of NBCUSTOM.SET and other useful
information in plain english along regular e-mail routes.
   Thank you, --William Bodiford (ibfbwmb@mvs.oac.ucla.edu)



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> Date:         Wed, 6 Jan 93 08:21:43 EST
> Reply-To:     Nota Bene List <NOTABENE@TAUNIVM.BITNET>
> Sender:       Nota Bene List <NOTABENE@TAUNIVM.BITNET>
> From:         Rip Lhamon <wlhamon@GARNET.ACNS.FSU.EDU>
> Subject:      RE: default and UU/XX format
> To:           "Mark J. Pisaro" <IABOSPI@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU>,
>               William Bodiford <IBFBWMB@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU>,
>               Guillermo Hernandez <IBGDGEH@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU>,
>               Mark Infusino <IJA4MHI@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU>,
>               "SHIRLEY ARORA ILX3ARO@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU" <ILX3ARO@MVS.OAC.UCLA.E
DU>
>
> In Message Wed, 6 Jan 93 14:15:10 IST, JTAKALA@FINUHA.BITNET writes:
>
> >
> >
> >Could someone repost XXENCODED the latest word on NBCUSTOM.SET, please?
> >UUencoded stuff routed via TAUNIVM does not come through to me
> >(although directly mailed usually does).  I think I'm not the only one
> >with this problem, that's why a public reposting may be in order.
> >
> >j-p takala
>
> Here, Here!
>
> As the person who first asked for help in identifying the codes in
> nbcustom.set, I have been going steadily crazier for the past 2-3 weeks as
> first Dorothy Day evidently provided the information and then people started
> thanking her, then others started adding to the information.  I am still
> unable to decode her message, or a similar one from Tony Woozley.  When I
> run uudecode on them, I get a "short file" error message.  When I run
> uuxfer20 on them, I get an error message in every line.  After repeated
> off-list consultations with Tony and Dorothy, and endless consultations with
> the mainframe locals, including a three hour visit in my office with one of
> the people from the wryly-named "Computer Help Desk" on this campus, all to
> no avail, I have been at wit's end.  One thinks it is one's own fault, and
> of course there is much reason to believe this, in my case.  But, if it is
> my fault, why can't the Comfuse Desk figure it out?  Which brings me back to
> J. P. Takala's welcome message . . .
>
> Can the problem be that I have been trying to uudecode and uuxfer these
> messages when I should have been trying to xxdecode them?  Or that some
> mainframe systems require xxencoded rather than uuencoded files if they are
> not to corrupt them?
>
> Can some one explain this?  Until these issues are settled, the information
> that some of you are able to swap is not getting through to Tallahassee, and
> it looks like Finland is in trouble, too.
>
> Meanwhile, it helps to know that I'm not alone.
> Rip Lhamon
> wlhamon@garnet.acns.fsu.edu
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