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From: del@pilchuck.UUCP (Erik Lindberg)
Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm
Subject: Re: REV TO UUENCODE/UUDECODE
Message-ID: <378@pilchuck.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 25-Jul-86 16:22:08 EDT
Article-I.D.: pilchuck.378
Posted: Fri Jul 25 16:22:08 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 26-Jul-86 11:16:10 EDT
References: <2455@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Organization: Data I/O Corp., Redmond, WA
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Summary: Rev: uuencode/uudecode DON'T

In article <2455@brl-smoke.ARPA>, TTTLEH5%NEUVM1.BITNET@WISCVM.ARPA writes:
> BUT because of all these networks, where some of the gateways change
> some of the special characters (like the ARPANET - BITNET gateway), one

The basic gist of this article is an intent to make uuencode/uudecode
compatible with some more restrictive nets by not using certain characters.
The intent is appreciated, but *don't* do this. The purpose of these
programs is to be compatible with the programs of the same name available
on standard Unix systems, if you change them you lose that compatibility.
If you still want to do this, change the name of the program so there will
be no confusion.

I am only posting this because I have seen no other posting to this affect,
and I think that a general response is required. I will oslo (pun intended)
follow up with mail, as will probably many others.

Del  aka Erik Lindberg
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