How to mail binary files UNIX<-->VMS?

[Lynn Gale]

We want to send binary files back and forth from a Sun (UNIX) to a Vax
(VMS) through email to Great Britain.  These are WordPerfect 5.1
formatted files which have been uploaded to the Sun or the Vax.

Mailing from UNIX to UNIX seems to work fine by doing "uuencode" at
one end and "uudecode" at the receiving end.  This encodes the file
into ASCII (for email), then decodes it back to binary.

Is there a VMS equivalent command such that a uuencoded file can be
decoded?  Or is there an alternative process available to get binaries
back and forth from UNIX to VMS through the mail?

The Vax users in Britain have used "makeboo" and "deboo" programs to
encode and decode binaries, but we don't know what to do with "boo"
files in UNIX!

lynn at casbs.stanford.edu
lynn%casbs at stanford.bitnet