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From: ART100@psuvm.psu.edu (Andy Tefft)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: uuencode for the apple //
Message-ID: <90351.153102ART100@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 17 Dec 90 20:31:02 GMT
Organization: Penn State University
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No, this is not another query for it.

I went and wrote uuencode and uudecode in assembly for the //.
Started out as a small project with the guts translated from the
c source (take a group of 3 characters and encode them into 4;
take 4 encoded characters and decode them into 3, and of course
there's really no other way to do it), but once I got
all the file stuff and a menu in there and some other options,
it got to be relatively long (around 1300 line source).

A2-central has shown some interest in it but if I sell it to
them I will have to keep a lid on it for a couple of months.
But I think the net would benefit from it more if I uploaded
it right now.

Is there immediate interest out there? I would certainly not
require payment for it (for the same reasons as binscii and
shrinkit are free), but of course donations would be accepted.
If I sold it to a2-central of course I would make some money up-front
but the problem still remains that it would be a while before I
could distribute it for free.

So, I guess, take this as an informal survey.

Would you like to see uuencode/uudecode for the // that runs
   as a sys file, standalone?
Would it pain you greatly to wait about 3 months for it?

I am starting to write up docs for it, and I will send them to
anyone who wants more information. They will detail current and
planned features.

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