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From: na2@doc.ic.ac.uk (Nicholas Ambrose)
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Subject: Re: unix bonehead needs help
Date: 11 Nov 1993 13:51:14 -0000
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In article <2bs4an$ik7@pandora.sdsu.edu>, talley@sunstroke.sdsu.edu (Drew Talley) writes:
|> I'm logging into my unix system from a Mac, and these animations are
|> becoming quite a trauma.  Anyone with any suggestions on how to 
|> unencode these things?  I have to telnet into the unix, if that matters.
|> I'd really appreciate it if someone could provide me a step by
|> step method to deal with these.
|> 
|> thanks
|> 
|> Drew
|> 
do you mean uudeode these things ? if so, all you need to do is
to save the news file off to a file. then strip off all text befor the line
'begin' and after the line 'end'. now re-save it, and use uudecode <fname>

  ie uudecode ascii.art

this should create a uu-decoded file.
hope this helps.
Nick
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