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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Subject: [handhelds] Re: Why ASC over UUENCODE?
Message-ID: <1991May13.062947.25324@ox.com>
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Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
References: <1991Feb14.015132.10732@nntp-server.calt <27bc3211:2035.6comp.sys.handhelds;1@hpcvbbs.UUCP> <1991Feb16.191721.23352@nntp-server.caltech.edu> <1991May10.113936.28943@cs.dal.ca>
Date: Mon, 13 May 1991 06:29:47 GMT
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Archive-name: compression/encoding/dumas-uuencode/1991-05-10
Archive: cs.dal.ca:/pub/bio/uud.tar.Z [129.173.4.5]
Original-posting-by: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Original-subject: Re: Why ASC over UUENCODE?
Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN)

In article <1991Feb16.191721.23352@nntp-server.caltech.edu> madler@owl.caltech.edu (Mark Adler) writes:
>>> 1)  ... UU is not in place everwhere, and it's a pain to put into place.
>I know I wouldn't be able to spot a missing line in the ASC *or* UU format.

[two points taken out of context]

It may be worth pointing out that there exist backwards compatible
versions of uu{en,de}code widely available.  The Dumas version, which
was designed for the ST but easily compiled on PC's, Unix boxes, and
just about everything else, handles multi-part postings (not a hot issue
with handheld users!) and adds a sequence check to the end of each line
(this is ignored by standard uudecode).  It also incorporates a method
for handling munged characters, such as the backquote/space ambiguity.

One version of the Dumas program is available by anonymous ftp from
cs.dal.ca as pub/bio/uu.tar.Z if anyone is interested.
-- 
William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. (902)426-1577
UUCP=..!{uunet|watmath}!dalcs!biome!silvert
BITNET=silvert%biome%dalcs@dalac	InterNet=silvert%biome@cs.dal.ca

-- comp.archives file verification
cs.dal.ca
-rw-r--r--  1 4024     75          15167 Apr 17 12:43 /pub/bio/uud.tar.Z
found dumas-uuencode ok
cs.dal.ca:/pub/bio/uud.tar.Z
