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From: egisin@orchid.UUCP (Eric Gisin)
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Subject: Re: uuencode enhancements
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Date: Thu, 28-May-87 19:32:59 EDT
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I'll admit atob is better that uuencode,
but there is a lot of existing archived software in uuencode format.

The problem with bitnet (in addition to stripping trailing blanks)
is that lack of a standard for ascii/ebcdic translation on systems
that need to translate between them (Unix, VMS, and TCP/IP on VM and MVS).
(you would think the Bitnet people could adopt a standard
and encourage its members to adopt it).

There is an enhancement to uuencode that includes an encoding
table at the beginning so that any one-to-one mis-translations
can be reversed when decoding.  (atob could enhanced likewise).