silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert) (05/13/91)
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