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From: magnus@THEP.LU.SE (Magnus Olsson)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: uuencode vs. xxencode
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Date: 17 Jul 90 12:43:52 GMT
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What's the difference between uuencode and xxencode, and which encoding
scheme is the "best" for mailing binaries (i.e. which one produces the smallest
output files?)

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