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From: davidsen@steinmetz.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: minix - is this a sensible thought ?
Message-ID: <1200@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Feb-87 14:52:15 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 11 14:52:15 1987
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Reply-To: davidsen@kbsvax.UUCP (william E Davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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Keywords: file transfer formats, etc, etc.


If you're going to use compress, you might as well use atob and btoa
also, they produce less text than uuencode. I admit that a command
such as:
  ls|cpio -oc|compress|btoa|mail joe -s 'text of source'

is not totally intuitive.

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