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From: cloos@acsu.buffalo.edu (James H. Cloos)
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Subject: Re: ASC versus uuencode
Keywords: hp48
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Date: 15 Feb 91 01:54:47 GMT
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In article <3475@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> peraino@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Bob Peraino) writes:
|
|>I feel compeled to mention one point that I left out of my immediatly
|>previous post on this subject:  ASC includes a CRC, uuencode does not.  On
|>a machine such as the 48, where incorrect binaries can cause a MEM LOST,
|.
|.
|>  ASC will tell you the string is invalid if there is any
|>coruption; uudecode will not, and could cause problems.
| 
|     uudecode may not have a checksum, but then, why do you really need
|one, anyway? I don't know about you, but I KERMIT the stuff to my
|48, and KERMIT does checksumming anyway, so it can't get from there
|to here with an error anyway. I suppose, somewhere along the net,
|something could get hosed, but aren't all those connections checksumming
|as well? If I'm wrong about this, then indeed, the checksums are important.
|
|>James H. Cloos, Jr.             Phone:  +1 716 673-1250
|>cloos@ACSU.Buffalo.EDU          Snail:  PersonalZipCode:  14048-0772, USA
|
|peraino@gmuvax.gmu.edu

I should clarify that this was in responce to putting a UUDECODEr on the
48.  In this case the CRC becomes important.  If all of the uudecodeing is
to be done before transfering to the 48, then the lack of crc is no problem.

My conclusion is to post in both forms anything longer than a line or 2.
(And those are excluded because I'd just type them in, not trasnfer them over.)

-JimC
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