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From: guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: 3b2 has no uuencode/uudecode??
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Date: Mon, 27-May-85 22:10:56 EDT
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> We have almost 200 Unix machines and non of them have uuencode or
> uudecode. Are we missing out on something?

"uuencode" and "uudecode" are programs which encode binary files into a form
which uses only printable ASCII characters.  They weren't provided with any
release of UNIX from AT&T.  They are provided with 4.xBSD.  As far as I
know, they are not covered by any license other than the AT&T UNIX licenses
(if that) and maybe the 4.xBSD license, and will run under any UNIX
implementation.  They are intended to be used for mailing binary files via a
mail mechanism which doesn't necessarily support mailing of arbitrary data.

	Guy Harris