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Article #2585Re: New way to post binaries - disc
From: jhs
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1986 11:56
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1986 11:56
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One disadvantage to the method mentioned in the abbove-referenced message is that each encoded byte transmits only 4 bits of information. By comparison, uuencoded data transmits 6 bits per encoded byte, obviously 50% more for your money. The problem with uuencode is that it uses certain troublesome characters such as spaces to encode data. This problem would be immediately eliminated if we were to revise uuencode to use only non-troublesome characters. For example, the set a-z, A-Z, 0-9, and . and / or any other set of 64 noncontroversial characters would do the trick. However, it would make programming simpler if the selected characters were in two contiguous ranges, such as a-z and 56789:;<=>?@ plus A-Z. (I think that adds up to 64 of 'em!) John Sangster jhs@mitre-bedford.arpa
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!columbia!rutgers!sri-spam!nike!ucbcad!ucbvax!MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA!jhs From: jhs@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16 Subject: Re: New way to post binaries - disc Message-ID: <8610280203.AA00422@mitre-bedford.ARPA> Date: Tue, 28-Oct-86 06:56:45 EST Article-I.D.: mitre-be.8610280203.AA00422 Posted: Tue Oct 28 06:56:45 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 28-Oct-86 21:06:09 EST References: <24200008@maggot> Sender: chin@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The MITRE Corp., Bedford, MA Lines: 16