Kaveh <kav### [at] delete_thisfocalimagecom> wrote:

> Sorry if this should be obvious. I used MacSoup on OS X. It does not
> support binaries. I have ftp upload programs. What is the procedure for
> uploading images to binary groups? I can't find any info on the site.
> 
> -- 
> Kaveh

Hello,

I also use MacSoup, and actually, it has no option to post binaries.
Though, you can, as it is finally only text. There nothing to do with
ftp (or at list, I don't know how).
You must have a third party encoder : I use StuffIt. If you are on a
mac, you probably have StuffIt (maybe it is even included into OS X).
The format used on the newsgroup is, as I found it myself : UUcode.
I don't know how StuffIt is implemented on OS X, but I have on 8.6 a
menu dedicated to StuffIt. Select your file to encode, in the menu (or
the StuffIt application, if you don't have the menu) and select "encode"
then "UU". It will give you a file text, probably ending in ".uu". Just
drag it in the MacSOUP window, at the end of your message, and it should
add all the text.
Just check that you actually have the keyword "end" at the end of the
weird caracters, and it should be OK.

To decode, I do exactly the opposite : I save the message in a text
file, that I send to StuffIt. You don't even have to select only the
weird caracters, he does it alone. He unstuffs it, and gives me the
decoded file, next to the text file, or in a specific folder, regarding
the settings you gave to StuffIt.

Don't hesitate to try here, I'll tell you if it works.

Regards,

-- 
"Je ne deteste que les bourreaux" -- Albert Camus

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