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From: lyndon@cs.athabascau.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.dcom.modems,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Data range used by UUCICO?
Keywords: uucico
Message-ID: <1574@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>
Date: 26 Mar 91 18:33:37 GMT
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jdeitch@jadpc.cts.com (Jim Deitch) writes:

>UUCP uses an 8 bit protocol.  If it didn't how could you copy a binary
>and run it?

Maybe by encoding the 8 bits into 7? Kermit can be configured to use only
printable ASCII characters and it has no problem shoveling eight bit data
around either ...

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    Lyndon Nerenberg  VE6BBM / Computing Services / Athabasca University
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