Date   : Sun, 20 Jul 1986 02:15:34 GMT
From   : "Willie Smith, LTN Components Eng." <w_smith@wookie.dec.com>
Subject: UUDECODE sources in assembly?

Greetings.  I really like the idea of passing around binaries
(with the sources of course, no trojans or logic bombs please!)
using UUENCODE and UUDECODE, and I can hardly wait to start
using them on things like crunch12, but there's this problem...
uudecode.com is uuencoded, and I don't have Pascal.  With the
help of my friendly (and incredibly patient) system mangler, I
managed to find an ARChived CP/M uudecode.com, but I don't have 
a CP/M ARC program.  Well, a little more searching turned up a
program DEARC.LBR, but I don't have a library utility.  All I
need now is a library utility that's uuencoded, and I can close
the loop!  :+)
       Actually, I did manage to find a SWEEP utility that runs on 
a VAX, but the uudecode.com file it builds (by the time I get it
shipped home via Kermit) doesn't work at all, and a quick disassembly
of the code leads me to believe there's a bug somewhere, it don't
look like code to me!
       A quick look at the Pascal code makes the process of uudecoding
look fairly easy, but if someone has already written an assembly
routine (or Basic, I'm not that proud) that I could use on my
copy of uudecode.uue, I could bootstrap this whole thing...
 
Many thanks as usual for any and all assistance!
 
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