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From: soeren@beansidhe.westfalen.de (Soeren M Soerries)
Subject: Re: LINE: ANSI-art [acid0594.ans] (4k)
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tll@swlrgx.msd.ray.com (Thomas Langberg {75472}) writes:


>I'm sure that xxencode, pkzip, any_weird_utility do a fine job.
>But some of us (me) don't have access to this stuff.  ;^)
>That's when it's nice to use the old standards.

pkzip is an old standards, if you use DOS... compress for DOS is not
too common.
On Unix, there is a program called "zip" that does the same job as pkzip.

As with UUENCODE, it uses *ascii* characters that many sites on the
net will misunderstand, ie. confound different sort of whitespaces and
such.  XXENCODE was written to fix some of those problems.  I don't
know exactly, because I don't have XXDECODE here yet, but I will try to
get it given the opportunity...

UUD / UUE are a different approach to fix the problems UUENCODE had,
it exists in  C source code  for DOS  and  UNIX, and can be decoded
with UUDECODE as well as it can decode files produced by UUENCODE,
so compatibility is 100% but the coding is better.

>Maybe you could repost with uuencode and compress.

*that* would be a waste of bandwidth I cannot apreciate.

I think it would be a better idea to help spread the new programs,
it's the easier way.  Like posting a XXENCODE/XXDECODE in source code...
... if it hasn't be done yet.

  Soeren
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