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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
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Subject: Re: Uuen/decode - question (and flame) - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 2-Jul-87 21:11:39 EDT
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In article <119700003@exunido.UUCP> mschmidt@exunido.UUCP writes:
> Can someone help me? Are there any other possibilities of encoding
> *arbitrary* data, that can be sent over *arbitrary* nets?

	Btoa/atob do essentially the same thing that uuencode/uudecode do,
but somewhat more efficiently (20% instead of 25% overhead).  I don't know,
however,  if btoa'd files are any more RJE-proof then uuencoded ones are.
-- 
Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016