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From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Binary -> Text Conversion Programs (UUENCODE/UUDECODE)
Message-ID: <52536@looking.on.ca>
Date: 25 Nov 89 20:30:18 GMT
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Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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I am a bit disappointed that I have not seen more use of the ABE system
that I posted here.   ABE will generate uuencoded files and decode them,
but it has a lot of advantages over the existing programs.   You can handle
the files in any order, and with duplicates, so that a person can just say
	dabe	mailbox		; or
	dabe	groupdir/*
And expect the files to come out reliably, CRC'd and all.

Plus if you use the ABE format instead of uuencode, it's smaller and
text strings are readable in the encoding.

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Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473