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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: patch to uuencode.c
Message-ID: <3722@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 15 Oct 89 14:05:30 GMT
References: <1670@cod.NOSC.MIL> <1989Oct14.233821.7000@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
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In article <1989Oct14.233821.7000@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>I'd recommend the Waterloo bencode/bdecode programs

Some people have pointed out that most usenet links compress anyway, so
my compressing really doesn't do much, except make the postings look more
modest.  There is this thing called Dumas uuencode that I have heard about,
said to be good for bitnet.  I am not sure.  

Conclusion: I am not really sure what to do now.  Could somebody tell me
more about this Dumas thing and bitnet?

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)