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From: rommel@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Kai-Uwe Rommel)
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Subject: Re: which archiver/compresser and encoder/decoder to use?
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Date: 26 Feb 90 16:47:52 GMT
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When we think about switching from uuencode to another encode, we should
use a program in the future which does not only change the encoding
scheme and is still as simple as uuencode is and does not support
multiple volumes, CRC's and so on.
Therefore I would suggest to use the ABE program because it is a nice
program which is easy to compile on most systems and offers a lot of
capabilities. Don't use this dumb uu/xx-encode programs any more when
better software is available. 

Kai Uwe Rommel
Munich
rommel@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de