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In article <48958@ut-emx.uucp> daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Dave Huang) writes:
>Personally, I don't like uuencode. I haven't seen all of the
>implementations, but the ones that I have seen are almost exactly like
>the "real" Unix one, which isn't that great. Combining multiple part
>uuencode files is a pain. With BinSCII, you can just stick them
>together and everything works fine. With uuencode, you have to delete
>all header and trailer lines, then stick the files together. Also,
>uuencode doesn't have any checksums, unlike BinSCII.

	I don't like uuencode/uudecode either.
	
	I think it's strange that people are suggesting we all now jump
to uuencode since it's available for for all //s now..

	Honestly, I think "we" (i.e. the programmers of the original 
Binscii and any variants) should make a few small changes if necessary:
	(1) Make binscii work (if it does not now) on filetype-less 
file systems, such as UNIX and MSDOS. (That is be able to MAKE binscii
files on those systems and not just decode them)

	After that change is made, if needed, binscii should be plopped 
around on all applicable newsgroups (comp.binaries.unix, comp.binaries.ibm.pc,
comp.binaries.amiga, etc) as a BETTER replacement for uuencode/uudecode.

	Why not start a revolution??
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