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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
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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.

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