UUTool

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UUTool [1] was a freeware application written for the Apple Macintosh by Bernie Wieser. The purpose of UUTool was to uuencode and uudecode files, however, the application functionality grew to translate uLaw encoded files [2] to AIFF format, segment large uuencoded files, and recombine multiple uuencoded files for decode.

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Technical details

UUTool uuencoded files and attached the .uu extension. However, UUTool was the first Macintosh program that encoded the data fork, resource fork, and finder information into one uuencoded file [3] with the .mu extension. The format for this was to catenate the three pieces of file information and uniquely name the resource fork and finder info as files. This allowed for some interoperability on non-Macintosh platforms.

Example

begin 0700 myfile ... end begin 0700 .rsrc ... end begin 0700 .finfo ... end

Version history

1990v1.0first 68k version
1994v2.3.2most pervasive version and last of the 68k line
1995v2.4first (and last) FAT version for PPC [4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Macintosh FAQ
  2. ↑ "Audio Formats". Archived from the original on 2022-08-16. Retrieved 2025-08-11.
  3. ↑ MacUtil ReadMe
  4. ↑ Info-Mac Digest UUTool-FAT(2.4)
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