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From: flee@guardian.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee)
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Subject: Re: Uudecode in Perl?
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Date: 3 Sep 90 22:21:07 GMT
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Gak.  I hadn't looked at pl28 yet.

Why uuencode?  Why not btoa, compress, rad-50, snefru, and morse code?

And how about the %r roman numeral conversion for printf?
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Felix Lee	flee@cs.psu.edu