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From: fer@phyllis.math.binghamton.edu (fernando guzman)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: xx vs. uu and encoding
Keywords: xxencode uuencode zoo
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Date: 14 Feb 90 19:15:47 GMT
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In article <1513@krafla.rhi.hi.is> frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) writes:
>The binaries that have appeared on c.b.i.p. have generally been UUencoded.
>What I would like to propose now is a general switch to XXencode. 
>
>One a side note - when c.b.i.p starts running again, which of the available
>file-compression utilities do the readers of the group want to be used ?
>ZOO and ZIP are obvious candidates, but there may be other possibilities.
>
>Any suggestions ? 

My vote goes for Zoo and UU.

Fernando Guzman