Subj : Re: Computers
To   : SPECTRE
From : MIKE POWELL
Date : Mon Jul 22 2024 08:36:00

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³MP> It was the first form that I was aware of for sure.  IIRC, there was some
³MP> kind of service, or site, where I had to use uudecode on files that were
³MP> not received via email, too.  I may very well be remembering that wrong as
³MP> I am not sure why they'd need encoding if they were not transmitted via
³MP> email or usenet.
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³There were a lot of early systems out there that were 7bit... if you tried to
³push data through these you'd lose some. UUENCODEing made it all 7bit for
³safe transfer. It was lossy though, a UUd file was larger than the original.
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7bit systems could be the reason right there.  Thanks for pointing that out.
 
I do remember the UUd files often being larger than the result after
decoding.
 
Mike
 
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