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From: pinard@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Francois Pinard)
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Subject: Re: Seeking "smarter" UUDECODE.C type utility
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Date: 31 Jan 91 14:41:23 GMT
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In-Reply-To: tomr@ashtate's message of 22 Jan 91 02:00:01 GMT

In article <1991Jan22.020001.15847@ashtate> tomr@ashtate (Tom Rombouts) writes:

   However, like all end users, I have a "wish list" item.  Thus: [...]

On another end, you might consider replacing uu{en,de}code altogether,
if you can afford this for your personnal use.  Take a look at Brad
Templeton's abe/dabe package.  For me, it is such a better replacement
that I'm surprised it did not receive a wider acceptance yet.  Like
everybody, I know how widespread uu{en,de}code is.  If everybody knew
the virtues of abe/dabe, the switch would have been done already :-).
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