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From: mcgrant@elaine30.stanford.edu (Michael Grant)
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Subject: Re: Why ASC over UUENCODE?
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Date: 14 Feb 91 19:49:01 GMT
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How about a portable version of ASC-> and ->ASC in C which is available
over FTP and mailservers (yes, I know some exist), AND which is distributed
in EXECUTABLE form on the HP software disks included with the cables?
(Heck, why not put the HP48 ASC-> and ->ASC programs on the disks too)?

That way, all that whining about UUENCODE would be bunk, because you
could ALWAYS transmit to and from your computer in binary, the format
would not suffer from ASCII-EBDIC translation or what-not, and everyone
would have the same programs anyway.

Mike