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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Why ASC over UUENCODE?
Summary: enhanced uuencodes are in wide use
Message-ID: <1991May10.113936.28943@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 10 May 91 11:39:36 GMT
References: <1991Feb14.015132.10732@nntp-server.calt <27bc3211:2035.6comp.sys.handhelds;1@hpcvbbs.UUCP> <1991Feb16.191721.23352@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Sender: silvert@cs.dal.ca.UUCP (Bill Silvert)
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Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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In article <1991Feb16.191721.23352@nntp-server.caltech.edu> madler@owl.caltech.edu (Mark Adler) writes:
>>> 1)  ... UU is not in place everwhere, and it's a pain to put into place.
>I know I wouldn't be able to spot a missing line in the ASC *or* UU format.

[two points taken out of context]

It may be worth pointing out that there exist backwards compatible
versions of uu{en,de}code widely available.  The Dumas version, which
was designed for the ST but easily compiled on PC's, Unix boxes, and
just about everything else, handles multi-part postings (not a hot issue
with handheld users!) and adds a sequence check to the end of each line
(this is ignored by standard uudecode).  It also incorporates a method
for handling munged characters, such as the backquote/space ambiguity.

One version of the Dumas program is available by anonymous ftp from
cs.dal.ca as pub/bio/uu.tar.Z if anyone is interested.
-- 
William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. (902)426-1577
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