What to do when Receiving a Uu-encoded File via Email
Sometimes, you may receive nothing but a strange agglomeration of letters in your mail. This may be a uu-encoded file. Find out what to do with it.
"Should I have answer'd Caius Cassius so?
When Marcus Brutus grows so covetous,
To lock such rascal counters from his friends,
Be ready, gods, with all your thunderbolts:
Dash him to pieces! "
William Shakespeare
Julius Cæsar
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Uu-encoded Files, in Parts, in Emails
We already looked at how to send a file uu-encoded. If the file is too large to be sent in one large junk, uu-encoding also makes it possible to cut it in small (for your mail server) edible pieces.
We found out that UUDeview is a wonderful tool for doing that quickly and easily under Windows. It manages both the uu-encoding and the file splitting for you. But it can do even more as we shall shortly discover.
Tric sent a poem to Mric in uu-encoded form. What he receives in his inbox are two emails, each containing not much more than an agglomeration of letters and numbers that were apparently compiled by chance.
But Mric knows what to do. And he shows us, too.
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