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From: lucifer@world.std.com (Kevin S Green)
Subject: Re: GIF pics at apple2.archive.umich.edu
Message-ID: <1991May13.202755.18108@world.std.com>
Summary: I agree...uuencode
Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die
References: <Tabakal@UB.CC.UMICH.EDU> <9105111730.AA08829@apple.com> <1991May12.190918.6252@nevada.edu>
Date: Mon, 13 May 1991 20:27:55 GMT
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In article <1991May12.190918.6252@nevada.edu> alfter@nevada.edu (SCOTT ALFTER) writes:
|What might be simpler, though--not to mention more portable--might be
|to replace BinSCII with uuencode and uudecode, now that someone has
|seen fit to port those utilities to the II.  On the other hand,
|BinSCII is easier to use with the way it splits large files and its
|ability to skip junk that it can't read.  (Unless someone wants to fix
|uuen/decode somehow to behave the same way--but that isn't likely to
|happen.)

Now that's an excellent idea! There are many implementations of
uuencode around including source code for some. Some of these
implementations are extremely robust. Once I've finished teaching
myself C, I plan to try my hand at writing a uuencode utility so
I cast my vote that we move to uuencode.


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Kevin S. Green / lucifer@world.std.com / {xylogics;uunet}!world!lucifer