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- From: Watchman of FairLight <watchman@ludd.luth.se>
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- Subject: Re: Please Read: WHAT IS UUENCODING?
- Date: Mon, 01 Apr 1996 21:52:19 +0100
- Organization: FairLight
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- Hi!
-
- A short description of uuencoding:
-
- Take an array of 8bit data. Interpret the first 7 bits as a 7 bit ASCII
- character. Continue with next 7 bits and do the same. Repeat until end.
-
- This means that the source grows to approx 9/8 of it's original size.
- The std uuencode also includes a padding format which makes the
- uuencoded file easier to include in a textfile (fex mail).
-
- Side Issue:
- If you have a limited 'alphabet' you can gain some compression by
- encoding 'letters' from the 'alphabet' withing bytes and crossing
- byteboundaries. There is a MC Monitor that used two bytes to store the 3
- letter mnemonics. I myself have used the exact same method to store
- scrolltexts in crackintros... The only problem is that you then have to
- write scrolltext with longer than a certain lenght in order to gain
- anything from this method, something I obviously have no problem doing!
-
- Cheers!
- Joachim - Watchman of FairLight
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