Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!targon!gert
From: gert@targon.UUCP (Gert Kanis)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: Unnecessary tar-compress-uuencodes
Summary: xxencode uuencode ebcdic
Keywords: xxencode uuencode ebcdic
Message-ID: <1425@targon.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jul 90 10:29:38 GMT
References: <15652@bfmny0.BFM.COM> <3114@psueea.UUCP> <1990Jul10.203015.27282@eci386.uucp> <5256@plains.UUCP> <3124@psueea.UUCP> <1990Jul13.022224.25441@lth.se> <24445@estelle.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: gert@targon.UUCP (Gert Kanis)
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In article <24445@estelle.udel.EDU> new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New) writes:
>we might want to consider a new version of UUENCODE that avoids
>any characters that are not available in EBCDIC.  I have one that
>uses only +-*/ 0-9 A-Z a-z and has checksums on each line.
>
>-- Darren

You might be refering to xxencode (and xxdecode). This has been posted at
least a few times (I think).
Of course the reactions to yet another encoder that expands your files more
than uuencode are very unenthousiastic.
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