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From: joefritz@pawl.rpi.edu (Jochen M. Fritz)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: which archiver/compresser and encoder/decoder to use?
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Date: 23 Feb 90 12:37:37 GMT
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In article <448@wjh12.harvard.edu> djb@wjh12.UUCP (David J. Birnbaum) writes:
>In article <100118@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
>
>>Even if the chosen encoder is not to be ABE, it should at least be something
>>a bit fancier than xxencode, with some support for multi-part encodings without
>>requring unpacking or hand editing.
>
>Having been bitten by the ASCII<-->EBCDIC problem many times, I recently
>surveyed 8-bit/7-bit encoding programs that could survive transmission
>between Internet and Bitnet sites.  These included ABE/DABE, ASCIFY,
>UTIL3, and XXENCODE/XXDECODE.  All produced 7-bit files that avoided the
>problematic characters used by UUENCODE.
>
>ABE was the only program with a built-in ability to generate multipart
>files; the other programs produced single large files that had to be

The uuencode/decode I have (V3.07 by Richard Marks, PC) will fragment files
automatically, and even automatically put them pack together.  This is
done such that if a file has a number in it, it will try to load an idectical
file with the next number.  EX: you tell it to decode part1.uue; after it
finished, it attempts to decode part2.uue, and so on.  I believe that I got
it from either Simtel20 or Grape.

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