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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: pack function, uuencode and xxencode
Keywords: pack uuencode xxencode
Message-ID: <11169@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 24 Jan 91 23:02:14 GMT
References: <1991Jan21.202552.28890@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <4725@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <4725@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) writes:
: It would be more useful if the uuen/decode operation had an encoding vector
: as parameter, like e.g.
: 
: $UUVEC = "+-0123456789abcdef...";

Too bad Perl doesn't have a tr command...   :-)

Larry