uuencode enhancements

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1 total messages Started by Keith Petersen Sat, 23 May 1987 16:19

#635

Author: Keith Petersen
Date: Sat, 23 May 1987 16:19

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Frank Wancho added another enhancement to uuencode - a trailing "M" at
the end of each line - which seems to eliminate the problem of mailers
lopping off trailing spaces.  The extra character at the end of the
line is ignored by uudecode because it's one greater than the number
of characters it's looking for.

Some IBM systems seem to change the spaces into backwards appostrophy
(`) so uudecode should look for those and treat them as if they were
spaces.

Another recent enhancement to uuencode/uudecode is adding a checksum
to the end of each line - something that has been badly needed for a
long time!  I'll dig up that version and send it along for your
consideration.

--Keith Petersen
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