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From: david@a.ms.UKy.CSNET (David Herron E-Mail Hack)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.misc
Subject: Re:  uuencode enhancements
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Date: Thu, 28-May-87 14:25:57 EDT
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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:
> >  >
> >  >...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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First, atob/btoa were not in the compress distribution which was
included with 4.3BSD.  No problem for me because we already had it
and had been using it for months.  But I'm sure someone out there
is missing it.

Second.  I've been using compress and btoa to transmit Usenet news over
BITNET for about a year now.  It works fine except for a couple of bugs.
One strange one was a condition where there would be a blank line between
the end of the encoded data and the trailer record.  Some part of
BITNET was adding blanks to the line to make sure it didn't disappear
because it was a null record.  The atob part didn't like the blanks
and got confused.

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