WANCHO@SIMTEL20.ARPA ("Frank J. Wancho") (06/13/87)
Dave, The Archive Server invokes a faithful version of ARC 5.10, but with an added option to significantly speed up the processing: the Q (for Quick) option, which bypasses all the tests of the various compression techniques and unconditionally compresses the input file. That compression uses a 12-bit mode vs. the 16-bit mode used by the Unix compress program. The uuencode algorithm is built directly into the server program. It has been slightly modified to append a trailing "M" to each line of output to preserve any trailing spaces resulting from the uuencode process. This change was made expressly for the BITNET recipients whose mailers want to suppress those trailing blanks. A properly implemented uudecode will ignore those trailing Ms. --Frank