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From: madler@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: Re: mailable binary
Message-ID: <1991Mar27.174450.295@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 27 Mar 91 17:44:50 GMT
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Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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Brad Templeton writes:

>> BTW ABE uses 86 characters in the ABE2 encoding format, which is
>> EBCDIC proof.   The characters to avoid are:
>> 
>>         ! ` [ \ ] ^ { | } ~

But this only leaves 84 characters.  Perhaps you didn't mean to
include the braces ('{' and '}')--I believe those are EBCDIC-safe.
That would give you 86.

Mark Adler
madler@pooh.caltech.edu