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From: flee@guardian.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee)
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Subject: Re: Unnecessary tar-compress-uuencodes
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Date: 12 Jul 90 02:45:38 GMT
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On a different note,

	A group I worked in made the surprising discovery that
	uuencode, a utility traditionally used to convert binary files
	to a printable form to pass through mailers, is a utility to
	"encode a binary file into a different binary file."

	[Randall Howard <rand@mks.com>
	 usenet <620@longway.TIC.COM>
	 comp.std.unix, 4 Apr 1990]

Sending uuencoded files through BITNET is by no means safe.  One
common munge is stripping trailing blanks.  This, at least, is
relatively easy to recover from.
--
Felix Lee	flee@cs.psu.edu