Message-Id: <9504290715.AA11977@st.unocal.com>
From: st.unocal.com!stssram@imagelan.com (Bob Myers)
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 1995 00:15:10 -0700
In-Reply-To: ibm.net!rose001@imagelan.com
To: baidarka@imagelan.com
Subject: Re: uuencoded file
On Apr 28, 23:35, ibm.net!rose001@imagelan.com wrote:
} Subject: Re: uuencoded file
> I caused more complexity then I intended. It has been a real learning
> experience. I appreciate the efforts of others to get this document out.
> There is more information in the file that I did not pick out (total 26
> pages of text) for this transmission. Next time I will first convert to
> ascii and then send uuencode or if zip would be better get back to me and
> that will hopefully work and be a better standard.
Don't uuencode if you convert it to ASCII first. uuencoding is used to
encode files with non-printable characters, which you shouldn't have after
you've converted the document to ASCII.
If you use zip, you do need to use uuencode as well, however.
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