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From: toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: BinSCII's future
Message-ID: <1991May22.191649.25710@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 22 May 91 19:16:49 GMT
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Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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davewh@microsoft.UUCP writes:

>uuencode sucks
>binhex sucks
>atob and btoa suck

most real uuencode implementations I've seen search for the "begin 644 file"
line. atob/btoa are EBCDIC safe, and use an 85 character alphabet (base 85
lets you encode four bytes into five characters, whereas binscii/binhex/uu
encode three bytes into four characters).

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu