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From: JDA@NIHCU.BITNET (Doug Ashbrook)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re:  uuencode/uudecode anyone?  (was:  GS Programs.  .  .
          Please!)
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Date: 8 May 88 22:47:44 GMT
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> and presumably the Basic interface would take a little work.  I'm curious
> is anyone would like to see this as a utility.  I haven't had any problems
> with Executioner.  If anyone has any real good reasons why uuencoded
> material is better, please speak up.

I do not know anything about uuencoded files, but if they contain
anything other than alphbetics and numerals, they are likely to cause
problems when they traverse the various translation tables of
netland.  Actually, I am being a little conservative, some of the
special characters are also fairly well agreed upon.  But characters
like curly braces, backslash, vertical bar, etc.  are frequently
problems.  Assumming that uuencoded files avoid this problem, I would
be happy to see them become the mode of choice.

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