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From: achowe@watmsg.waterloo.edu (CrackerJack)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.mac
Subject: uuxxcode mapping function ??? (was Re: binHex in atari ST)
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Date: 7 Apr 88 13:15:45 GMT
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>On the other hand, the UUencode program does an encoding that takes
>each set of three octets (24 bits) and produces 4 printable characters,
>by a rule that uses each set of 6 bits to index into a vector string
>with 64 elements.  You can see what these are by looking at a UUencoded
>file.  The result is a file 4/3 the size of the original.  The inverse
>function is UUdecode.  Most folks that have UUencode-UUdecode are not
>interested in BinHex.  Probably the best functions of this type are
>UUE and UUD done by J-P Dumas.

For the curious at heart, what is the mapping function used by UUENCOD?


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