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From: gary@utgard.uucp (Gary Manning)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: xx vs. uu and encoding
Keywords: xxencode uuencode zoo
Message-ID: <1990Feb15.112123.381@utgard.uucp>
Date: 15 Feb 90 19:21:22 GMT
References: <1513@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <3418@plains.UUCP> <3014@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu>
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ReplyTo: gary@utgard.UUCP (Gary Manning)

In article <3014@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> fer@phyllis.math.binghamton.edu (fernando guzman) writes:
>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
>>filecompression 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.

Me too.

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