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From: lennartb@lne.kth.se (Lennart Brjeson @ KTH, Stockholm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Why ASC over UUENCODE?
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Date: 13 Feb 91 11:26:09 GMT
References: <20148@shlump.nac.dec.com>,<1991Feb13.101558.5056@lth.se>
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In article <1991Feb13.101558.5056@lth.se>, e88cb@efd.lth.se (Christer Boberg) writes:
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>In Article 4917  akcs.dnickel@hpcvbbs.UUCP (Derek S. Nickel) says:
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>> As far as I can tell, UUENCODE is just as hard (or harder) to get as ASC.
>
>This PC-man doesn't seem to read comp.binaries.ibm.pc . Recently
>someone dropped a complete package for uuencoding and uudecodeing
>files on a MesSy-DOS-machine there, and this goes for the Amiga too,
>And most of us, as said before, have UNIX (how can you else read this?)
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Because there are DOZENS of other kinds of systems on the Usenet!!!!
ASC-> is machine independant, as it runs on the target machine. 
Those who have a C compiler on their host can get PD versions of ASC->.


>at school, and therefore must have NO problem messing with UUDECODE !
>
>Yes, send files with uuencoding, we've done that for a VERY long time
>when it comes to home-computer-files-over-the-net.

Remember that not everyone has Unix or even C. Use ASC->.


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