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From: hans@umd5.umd.edu (Hans Breitenlohner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: New UUDECODE
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Date: Mon, 1-Jun-87 19:21:49 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  1 19:21:49 1987
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In article <8705311430.AA00794@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> NETWORK@FRSAC11.BITNET writes:
>2- Some common internetwork transpositions are OK (e.g. grave accent instead of
>   blank, tilde instead of circonflex) (I am still on EARN/BITNET)
>

I would like to correct a misconception here.  The accent grave instead of
blanks is not a network transposition.  It is a conscious effort by the
latest U**X uuencode to avoid the problems associated with imbedded and
trailing blanks.  Unlike the real network transpositions it also does not
cause any problems if the decoding function is (take ascii character),
(subtract 0x20), (and with 0x3F).