Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!uunet!comcon!roy From: roy@comcon.UUCP (Roy M. Silvernail) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: UUencoding by the RPIECS server Summary: xxencode? Message-ID: <205@comcon.UUCP> Date: 23 Dec 89 15:04:18 GMT References: Organization: Computer Connection - Anchorage, Alaska Lines: 13 In article , FISHER@RPIECS.BITNET ("John S. Fisher") writes: > (3) As an alternate to uuencoding, the so-called xxencoding method can be > requested by specifying XXENCODE as an option on the /PDGET command. I have heard of xxencode, and even have a version of it for my PC. (I'm a rabid collector of encoders and archivers :-) I have never seen it used, though. Does it have advantages/disadvantages over UUencode? -- _R_o_y _M_. _S_i_l_v_e_r_n_a_i_l | UUCP: uunet!comcon!roy | "Every race must arrive at this [ah, but it's my account... of course I opine!] point in its history" SnailMail: P.O. Box 210856, Anchorage, | ........Mr. Slippery Alaska, 99521-0856, U.S.A., Earth, etc.|