Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!utcsri!flaps From: flaps@utcsri.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: uudecode Message-ID: <5153@utcsri.UUCP> Date: Tue, 28-Jul-87 23:29:41 EDT Article-I.D.: utcsri.5153 Posted: Tue Jul 28 23:29:41 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 30-Jul-87 01:09:04 EDT References: <8492@brl-adm.ARPA> Reply-To: flaps@utcsri.UUCP (Alan J Rosenthal) Organization: University of Toronto Lines: 25 Summary: In article <8492@brl-adm.ARPA> bagpiper@csvax.caltech.EDU writes: >A few weeks (months maybe) there were problems with >mailers cutting off blanks at the end of lines and I think that a new version >of the uu??code utilities were created that had a M at the beginning and the >end of the line instead of just the beginning. Could anybody verify this?? The Berkeley version of uuen/decode uses ` instead of space. This is a completely compatible modification due to the way the program works which involves a mod by 64. My version adds checksums. Since it is both-ways compatible with the other two versions, everyone should use it... I have e-mailed it to you. -- // Alan J Rosenthal // \\ // flaps@csri.toronto.edu, {seismo!utai or utzoo}!utcsri!flaps, \// flaps@toronto on csnet, flaps at utorgpu on bitnet. "To be whole is to be part; true voyage is return."