Need some decoder

[kawageo]

There are some source codes in a certain ABC packet that were encoded. How do we decode them?

For example, a few lines taken from a selected code are shown:

Code:

'===========================================================================
' Subject: MONSTER MAZE W/LEVEL EDITOR        Date: 08-13-00 (07:53)      
'  Author: John Wantland                      Code: QB, QBasic, PDS        
'  Origin: geekerman@hotmail.com            Packet: GAMES.ABC
'===========================================================================
DEFINT A-Z:DIM SHARED K,S,B&,Z&:V1 'Created by PostIt! 7.2
SUB V1:OPEN "O",1,"MAZE.ZIP",4^6:Z&=10080:?STRING$(50,177);
U"%up()%9%%%#-%P4..NlY.#_B>I%%y2%%%-%%%%rf&)jSg7fxFa;0&\]YaXl-NwR
U"UleFr]9XJ/K3nAYhJUnoRpnP(_oP58h'(F-APe6$Ot6(Wn^7zn/J8*s;qlpfDHM
U"C1xy%yOnz2tyAc,_(aodw;b(TW\O=/LE^>0rP.iN]>-cVU-]ZL[7M'[).6xJHI(
U"?#S53fC'PaH.pk-<CQ5I,aU;Dx$:5N9Vtk)3l_&3t[w6<mdm?6Ict=w[^JqLC*A
U"Y,vYi9\Y7Lni=B+HgM*$:)wqlQ($dE1Ra%.-RJ]P.wE()s<Ke+,nl8gQqP5('60
U"/a+QpT:yEe&-5.7E9A)CC%DSi8a*k>B+<;Y]*Tx+a5UI[aVog[F,l^Zaw:e]:LS
U"H.GZQW/(nfm&EB(EA4'Q3;.XT4cEj3H0DM_/UD5-=YQO(6N/ns]cPnVb3<>5:ab
U"Oo1as%P9#S9B(G*;/M&aG)*DTdzBq7AEY6k(>K?R7=n09ZjH.#un^hAG6>J-DNH

TIA,
Geo

[Plasma]

Run the program in QB. It will automatically generate a ZIP file (maze.zip) in the current directory.

[Anonymous]

thats nuts o.o

[Dr_Davenstein]

O_o

You mean that is a compressed file?

That is nuts!

:wtnod:

[na_th_an]

It is UU-encoded using PostIt!, a proggie that turned binary archives into ASCII-encoded text files so they could be posted on the fido.net and BBS, etc. It's used extensively in the ABC packets, as they used text files to store the snippets.