UUDeview for Windows Installation
File Downloads
Installation is pretty simple. The first step, of course, is to download the necessary files. Just click on the links below to download a file.
- UUDeview for Windows
This is the main file, which you have to download in any case.
- Visual Basic Runtime
You need the Visual Basic Runtime Library to run UUDeview. Since this library is used by many applications, chances are that you already have a copy. Look for the file vbrun300.dll
in your Windows or Windows\System directory.
You need to download this file only if you cannot find vbrun300.dll
on your disk.
Zip Archives
You will receive the files archived using the popular zip file format. You need a separate program to extract the original files from
the archive. Skip this section if you are already familiar with zip files.
Here are two popular programs to do the job:
- PKZip for DOS
This Dos program comes as self-extracting executable. After download, copy the file to an empty directory and execute it. Among the
extracted files, you will find lots of documentation explaining how to archive and unarchive files from and to zip files.
- WinZip
This is not a file for download but rather a link to the WinZip home page, a popular and comfortable Windows program to handle zip files.
Installing the VB Runtime
If you have downloaded the Visual Basic Runtime Library from above, you must also install it. Use the program of your choice to extract the Library (vbrun300.dll
) from the downloaded zip archive, and just copy it into your Windows
System directory (usually c:\windows\system
).
Installing UUDeview
The installation of UUDeview is just as simple. Create a new directory, and copy the downloaded file (uudvw10.zip
) into it. Then use the program of your choice to extract all files from the archive into the very same directory.
To run UUDeview, just double-click on uudeview.exe
in the
File Manager.
If you are running Windows 95, you can create a shortcut to uudeview.exe
; for Windows 3.x, just "drag" uudeview.exe
from the File Manager and "drop" it into an appropriate folder in the Program Manager.
That's it! Congratulations, you are now running UUDeview for Windows.
UUDeview for Windows is a program written by Michael Newcomb, based on Frank Pilhofer's Decoding Library. Source code to both parts is available. For details, check the main page.
Last modified: 1 August 1996