Subj : Re: Computers
To   : MIKE POWELL
From : Spectre
Date : Mon Jul 22 2024 10:48:00

 MP> It was the first form that I was aware of for sure.  IIRC, there was some
 MP> kind of service, or site, where I had to use uudecode on files that were
 MP> not received via email, too.  I may very well be remembering that wrong as
 MP> I am not sure why they'd need encoding if they were not transmitted via
 MP> email or usenet.

There were a lot of early systems out there that were 7bit... if you tried to
push data through these you'd lose some. UUENCODEing made it all 7bit for
safe transfer. It was lossy though, a UUd file was larger than the original.

Spec


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