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From: langdon@lll-lcc.aRpA (Bruce Langdon)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.protocols.misc,comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: uuencode enhancements
Message-ID: <886@lll-lcc.aRpA>
Date: Wed, 27-May-87 23:41:35 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 27 23:41:35 1987
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Summary: Why all this fuss over uuencode/uudecode? atob and btoa are better.
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In article <1046@viper.Lynx.MN.ORG>, john@viper.Lynx.MN.ORG (John Stanley) writes:
> 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.
>  >
>  >...any other enhancements to the "standard".
>  >
atob and btoa are part of the compress package, freely available.
btoa makes a more compact encoding than uuencode. Does it have trouble
with weird (IBM etc) sites? If you use compress first, you REALLY save
on the size of your ascii file to transmit.
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