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From: kaufman@delta.eecs.nwu.edu (Michael L. Kaufman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Why ASC over UUENCODE?
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Date: 16 Feb 91 07:35:24 GMT
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In article <1991Feb11.230500.9590@javelin.es.com> pashdown@javelin.sim.es.com 
writes:
>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.

Two problems with this argument.

1) The only difference that this would cause would be that people would 
constantly be asking for UUENCODE instead of ASC.

2) UUENCODE may or may not be available on every machine.  We do know that ASC
is available on the one machine that everyone interested has; the 48sx.

Michael

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