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From: madler@eeyore.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Why ASC over UUENCODE?
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Date: 13 Feb 91 00:41:24 GMT
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By the way, I don't remember if this was mentioned on this thread, but
the uuencode format is more efficient than asc, since uuencode puts six
bits in a character, where asc only puts four.

Mark Adler
madler@pooh.caltech.edu