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Article #714Re: Re: uuencode for vm/cms
From: Richard Alan Schafer
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1992 23:21
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1992 23:21
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On Thu, 2 Jul 1992 12:13:46 CST Ray Gay said: >Does anyone have a handle on a uuencode program for CMS to facilitate >file transfer using Rice Mail to internet nodes. > I have to point out that you are asking for trouble by using uuencode unless you guarantee that you will not go through any Ascii-Ebcdic translations. uuencode unfortunately uses a set of characters which includes some which do not handle translation well. The IETF working group which produced RFC1341 (MIME) included in that spec a "base64" encoding which would definitely work, since the characters used are the alphabet, numbers, +, and /. While I don't know off-hand of any existing base64 encoders for CMS systems, they shouldn't be hard to write, I wouldn't think. -- Richard
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d8d0,3c2a497d66a39ad9 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8d0,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-07-02 02:36:18 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!usc!wupost!bcm!rice!is.rice.edu!schafer From: schafer@is.rice.edu (Richard Alan Schafer) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.mail-l Subject: Re: Re: uuencode for vm/cms Message-ID: <1992Jul2.232116.10294@rice.edu> Date: 2 Jul 1992 23:21:16 GMT References: <MAIL-L%92070214180819@BITNIC.EDUCOM.EDU> Sender: news@rice.edu (News) Organization: Rice University Lines: 18