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From: swerling@caen.engin.umich.edu (Ace Swerling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Shouldn't StuffIt implement atob/btoa?
Message-ID: <41ec8cdc.129dc@blue.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 9 Mar 89 18:03:00 GMT
References: <604@tekno.chalmers.se>
Reply-To: swerling@caen.engin.umich.edu (Ace Swerling)
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering
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In article <604@tekno.chalmers.se> d83_sven_a@tekno.chalmers.se (Sven (Sciz) Axelsson) writes:
>Well, mr. Lau, why not go all the way and implementing the atob/btoa protocol
>in the next release of StuffIt? I, for one wouldn't mind getting my telephone
>bill cut by having less data to transfer through the modem.

Hear, hear!  I think that BinHex exacts too much of a cost in size for what it
does, especially when there's another alternative out there that can
significantly cut data size.

-Ace

This is only my opinion.