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- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!Rick_Michael_Cortese
- From: Rick_Michael_Cortese@cup.portal.com
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
- Subject: Re: My ego VS UUE
- Message-ID: <72170@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 21:44:55 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- Distribution: world
- References: <1h43rcINNqp@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
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- Hmmmm... It would be a good idea to double check exactly what UUENCODE
- does, but I believe it's based on 64 characters. Since it's based on
- only 64 characters(I think) it only gets about 5 of 8 bits for each
- character ergo the the 1:1.5 expansion. I looked at a couple of refs
- for ASCII. 0-31 => control characters, <esc>, etcetera. 32-126 => straight
- characters & puctuation. 127=> <DEL or Back Space>. It looks like just
- the right amount for what I propose i.e. base 85. Base 86 or 93 or
- whatever would work too for that matter.
- This thing has almost got me excited. I don't know how much UUENCODED
- goes around (since I try and avoid it <grin>), but this encryption
- scheme seems to good to be true. Makes me wonder if I'm really right & if
- so, why did everyone else miss it? Shrinking those UUE thingies by 25%
- seems like a desirable goal.
-