Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!uwm.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!isgate!krafla!frisk From: frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Automated extraction of programs from c.b.i.p postings. Message-ID: <1874@krafla.rhi.hi.is> Date: 30 Jul 90 10:31:38 GMT References: <2077@cirrusl.UUCP> <4399NU013809@NDSUVM1> <34590@ut-emx.UUCP> Reply-To: frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) Organization: University of Iceland (RHI) Lines: 21 In article <34590@ut-emx.UUCP> readdm@walt.cc.utexas.edu (David M. Read) writes: >Well, I don't think there's any need to scrap uuencode...I have recently >written a new version of uuencode that uses the old standard, but >automatically handles multi-part encodes and decodes, splitting large >files and adding "cut here" lines in the encode case, and skipping >over headers & trailers in the decode case. Well, this is useless to me, as it does not solve the biggest problem with UUencode - regarding file transfers to/from BITNET sites. I regularly receive binary files (encrypted viruses) from BITNET sites, and experience has shown that UUencoded binaries regularly get scrambled. My solution has been to use xxencode instead, which is only minimally different from uuencode, but does not have this problem. -frisk -- Fridrik Skulason University of Iceland | Technical Editor of the Virus Bulletin (UK) | Reserved for future expansion E-Mail: frisk@rhi.hi.is Fax: 354-1-28801 |