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From: dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Is ` allowed in uuencode'd files?
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Date: 18 Nov 90 01:52:27 GMT
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The original "uuencode" (found on 4.1 or 4.2 BSD, I think) generated
blanks but the corresponding "uudecode" accepted both blanks and
back-quotes for the same thing.  Since there is no standard for
uuencoding other than the de facto standard set by the original
implementation, any uudecode that won't accept back-quotes is broken.

Later uuencodes (e.g. 4.3BSD) generate back-quotes because these are
more resistant to IBM mainframes.
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Rahul Dhesi <dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com>
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