Unnecessary tar-compress-uuencodes
Felix Lee
flee at guardian.cs.psu.edu
Thu Jul 12 12:45:38 AEST 1990
On a different note,
A group I worked in made the surprising discovery that
uuencode, a utility traditionally used to convert binary files
to a printable form to pass through mailers, is a utility to
"encode a binary file into a different binary file."
[Randall Howard <rand at mks.com>
usenet <620 at longway.TIC.COM>
comp.std.unix, 4 Apr 1990]
Sending uuencoded files through BITNET is by no means safe. One
common munge is stripping trailing blanks. This, at least, is
relatively easy to recover from.
--
Felix Lee flee at cs.psu.edu
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