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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: IDEA: a better way to transmit files
Keywords: archive, uuencode
Message-ID: <6898@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Date: 22 Apr 89 17:23:33 GMT
References: <926@hslrswi.UUCP>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <926@hslrswi.UUCP> naz@hslrswi.UUCP (Norman H. Azadian) writes:
>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?

This occurred to me about two years ago, soon after I got access to
Usenet.  It's in the "to be eventually implemented when I have the
time" queue for zoo.
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Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
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