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From: meissner@dg_rtp.UUCP
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Subject: Re: uuencode enhancements
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Date: Fri, 29-May-87 17:32:49 EDT
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In article <886@lll-lcc.aRpA> langdon@lll-lcc.aRpA (Bruce Langdon) writes:
	/* stuff about uuencode/uudecode deleted */
> 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.

One thing to note about atob/btoa is that will append upto 3 (or 4?) null
bytes upon conversion from printable chars to binary.  Compress evidently
can handle it, but I was surprized when I was using them without compress.
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	Michael Meissner, Data General	Uucp: ...mcnc!rti!dg_rtp!meissner

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