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From: creiman@headroom.ncsa.uiuc.EDU (Chuck Reiman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Why ASC over UUENCODE?
Message-ID: <1991Feb12.104140@headroom.ncsa.uiuc.EDU>
Date: 12 Feb 91 16:41:40 GMT
References: <1991Feb11.230500.9590@javelin.es.com> <37409@netnews.upenn.edu>
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In article <37409@netnews.upenn.edu>, hoford@sequoia.upenn.edu (John
Hoford) writes:
> In article <1991Feb11.230500.9590@javelin.es.com>
pashdown@javelin.sim.es.com writes:
> >
> >I am having a real hard time trying to see why ASC is preferred over
UUENCODE.
> >Here are my points against ASC:
> 
> >3. Not a standard form of transportation.  How many times are we
going to see
> >"Where can I get ASC?" in the future?  UUENCODE is widely available
FOR ALL
> >PC's.  UNIX, VMS, IBM, Amiga, Atari, Mac.  I think there is even an
Apple II
> >version available.  If not, there are versions of UUENCODE available
in
> >BASIC.
> 
> But UUENCODE is not available for the hp48sx, the intended machine. 
> This seems to have been the major reason ASC was implemented,
> It also means you could not type in the binary progams.
> 
> I my self would like them as uuencode'ed files.

ASC also has the advantage that the strings producded have actual
meaing. They
are the actual hex bytes of the object. This allows one to disassemble
obejcts
to see what makes them tick.

Charlie Reiman
creiman@ncsa.uiuc.edu