The program uuencode takes a non-text file and makes it a text file. The second pict.gif is the name of the file that it will be called after decoding. If you recieve a uuencoded message, save the message as a file called filename and type uudecode filename . Text editors are different from word processors in a number of ways. A text editor is simply something that edits text.
Examples are vi, ed, nedit, textedit, and xemacs.
The output of a text editor is a text file, which is one of the basic files that you will produce. A word processor is designed to produce a page of text that looks good. Examples are Microsoft Word and Word Perfect. A processor is concerned with the margins and the font and the font size and way that text is wrapped, etc. The output file contains information about all of the appearances of the text on the page and the actual text.