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Re: Searching for a Prolog

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From: ljdickey
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1987 18:00
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In article <YVSweEy00XcA8ws0Oc@andrew.cmu.edu> ps2i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Paul Leonard Sonier) writes:
>...
>compress and decompress files to great extent.  But ARC doesn't like the
>file.  I think it is encoded in a second way.  I believe that this way is
>UUE, although I do not know what it is, what it does, or why anyone would
>want to encode something twice.  If anybody out there has any info on any of
>the points, ...

These posting are usually done with ARC first, which creates a file
that has a lot of binary stuff in it.  In order to transmit it over
the phone lines, it is UUencoded, so that only "printing" characters
are used.

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