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From: page%swap@Sun.COM (Bob Page)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: uudecode (was: VLT bug (Willy, and others, speak))
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Date: 13 Jul 89 01:14:36 GMT
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chas@gtss.gatech.edu (Charles Cleveland) wrote:
>(uuencode is not so good because his BitNet mail goes through an IBM which
>has a tendency to swap certain characters and he has to fix these up
>manually).

The latest version (latest since Dec '87!) of uudecode will detect
BITNET rot and adjust for it.  Have Willy use this version; it prevents
everyone from using yet another encoding scheme.  We have enough already...

The uuencode scheme also adds checksums and doesn't put spaces in the file;
even if you don't care about BITNET rot you still want these.

Get files unix/uuxcode.1 and uuxcode.uu1 from your favorite Amiga archive.

..bob