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From: per@iesd.auc.dk (Per Langfeldt Hagen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: zuu
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Date: 9 Mar 90 16:03:28 GMT
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Sender: per@iesd.auc.dk (Per Langfeldt Hagen)
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In-Reply-To: nemisis@blake.acs.washington.edu's message of 2 Mar 90 10:33:39 GMT

In article <6102@blake.acs.washington.edu> nemisis@blake.acs.washington.edu (Karen McElroy) writes:

>   What does *.zuu* mean?  I know it is some kind compression, but which one?

The .zuu extension means the file is an uuencoded zoo-file. The reason
files are uuencoded is to be able to xmit a binary file along a 7 bit
line, without getting the data's 8th bit trashed.

-Per :-)

P.S.
	Nice work on MSH. It works fine for me.