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Subject: Re: uuencode enhancements
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Date: Mon, 25-May-87 18:53:23 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 25 18:53:23 1987
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In article <7702@orchid.UUCP> egisin@Math.Waterloo.EDU (Eric Gisin @ University of Waterloo) writes:
 >
 >The original version was written by someone at Berkeley.
 >It was enhanced with an "encoding table" and the ability
 >to restore missing trailing blanks to avoid problems over RSCS.
 >I believe this is called the Dumas version.
 >It was further enhanced to optionally split the output by JPHD.
 >Does anyone know the full name of these authors,
 >or of any other enhancements to the "standard".
 >

  Eric, JPHD is Jean-Pierre H. Dumas the author of "the Dumas version".
His full autograph/address follows:

        +--------------------------------------------------+
        | Jean-Pierre H. Dumas                             |
        |                                                  |
        | network@frsac11 (bitnet)                         |
        | network%frsac11.bitnet@wiscvm.wisc.edu (arpanet) |
        | ..!ihnp4!frsac11.bitnet!network (usenet ?)       |
        | dumas@sumex-aim.stanford.edu (arpanet)           |
        +--------------------------------------------------+

 >I'll be posting a portable version of the enhanced version
 >with full documentation in the future.

  I would recommend contacting Jean-Pierre to chat about the enhanced
version, your version, and subjects related to portability... :-)  I
think JPHD is planning to release a new version sometime soon to solve
a few problems encountered with en/decoding files from/to other versions
of UUENCODE/UUDECODE.  The changes may prove useful.

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John Stanley (john@viper.UUCP)
Software Consultant - DynaSoft Systems
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