Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: patch to uuencode.c
Message-ID: <1989Oct14.233821.7000@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1670@cod.NOSC.MIL>
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 89 23:38:21 GMT

In article <1670@cod.NOSC.MIL> hall@cod.NOSC.MIL (Robert R. Hall) writes:
>This patch substitutes '`' character (0x60) for the space
>charater (0x20) in the output of uuencode...

However, this in turn introduces another problem:  backquote is one of
those oddball characters that can get mangled when Bitnet translates to
and from EBCDIC.  If you really want something that is absolutely,
positively Bitnet-proof, because it was designed that way by people
familiar with Bitnet, I'd recommend the Waterloo bencode/bdecode programs
shipped with C News.  They've been used to pass a good many megabytes
of compressed news over Bitnet.  The encoding includes a byte count and
a CRC, so that any errors that do happen get detected.
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A bit of tolerance is worth a  |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
megabyte of flaming.           | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu