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.TH xx 1 "June 30, 2012"
.LO 1
.SH NAME
.B xx
\- extract binary files from uudecoded files
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B xx
< file.uu
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B xx
is shell script that extracts binary files from files encoded in the UNIX-to-UNIX
(uu) format. It ignores all headers and irrelevant stuff.
.SH BUGS
.B xx
has shortfalls like all such scripts/programs, but it works (almost) 100% of
the time. It was tested against many such tools available at many ftp sites and
it was found that it had a higher success rate. There are a few C programs out
there and
.B xx
is slower compared to them. But it works even in those cases where they fail to
work. The only time it will not work is when a uuencoded source file is cut up in
many pieces and the last part contains less than three source lines in it. Such
cases are however rare.
.SH AUTHORS
.B xx
was written by Tahir Zia Khawaja
.I <umkhawaj@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
and Nasir Ahmed Noor
.I <umnoor@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR uudecode (1)
.BR uuencode (1)
.BR uucp (1)
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