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From: naz@hslrswi.UUCP (Norman H. Azadian)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: IDEA: a better way to transmit files
Keywords: archive, uuencode
Message-ID: <926@hslrswi.UUCP>
Date: 21 Apr 89 19:58:09 GMT
Organization: Hasler AG
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It just ocurred to me that the way we send files back and forth is
really pretty silly.  First we compress the bejesus out of them
with archivers or compress, then we expand them with uuencode or
btoa to prevent problems with mailers.

Wouldn't it be rather more clever to give the archivers/compressors
an option which would restrict their output character set to something
safe for mailers?  My guess is that this would produce a smaller output,
in addition to the obvious savings in compute time and operator effort.

NHA
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