UUEncoding/UUDecoding


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UUEncoding/UUDecoding



Jack the Klipper <toru@online.no> kirjoitti:

> I think the UUencoding is some sort of compressing think
> because Winzip recongizes it as extracable.

UUencoding is a method to encapsulate 8-bit binary data
in a stream of 7-bit ASCII printable characters. There
is no compression involved - actually, the encoded file
will be about 1/3 larger than the original file.

 -- znark


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