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filenames with .uaa, .uab, .uac extensions

Rob Harper harper at convex.csc.FI
Thu Mar 12 08:55:47 EST 1992


In <39650 at mentor.cc.purdue.edu> muriana at aclcb.purdue.edu (Peter M. Muriana) writes:

>While perusing the files in several anonymous-FTP sites I've noticed
>filename extensions such as .uaa, .uab, .uac.  
>Can anyone tell me what kind of decompression/de-archiving program
>is needed to access these programs and where to find the particular
>de-archiving program?

The files are UUENCODED files that have been done by the EMBL encoder
developed by Rainer Fuchs. The files are plain ascii, and when you
UUDECODE them they usually produce an archive, self-extracting in some
cases.

RGDS -=ROB=-

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