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From: AABENSON@MTUS5.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: What's uuencode and uudecode?
Message-ID: <91005.224648AABENSON@MTUS5.BITNET>
Date: 6 Jan 91 03:46:48 GMT
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Rob Halloran says that uuencode and uudecode is the Unix equivalent for
BinSCII.  This is a little incorrect.  Although both uudecode/encode perform
the same functions as BinSCII (converting a binary file to text and back), they
are not equivalent.  They both do the same thing, but use different formats,
so they are incompatible.

- Andrew.  (aabenson@balance.cs.mtu.edu)