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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!newsgate.watson.ibm.com!news.ans.net!cmcl2!calvin!mchip00.med.nyu.edu!roy
  2. From: roy@mchip00.med.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.mail.mime
  4. Subject: Re: X.400 and multimedia mail
  5. Date: 13 Dec 1992 14:09:02 GMT
  6. Organization: New York University, School of Medicine
  7. Lines: 9
  8. Message-ID: <1gfg5uINN5ej@calvin.NYU.EDU>
  9. References: <1992Dec11.153138.2198@ericsson.se> <1galsqINNr88@gap.caltech.edu> <Bz6H65.EnH@zoo.toronto.edu>
  10. NNTP-Posting-Host: mchip00.med.nyu.edu
  11.  
  12. henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
  13. > And uuencode is essentially identical to base64 except that it's not as
  14. > good, due to some fundamental design mistakes; in particular, it isn't any
  15. > more compact.
  16.  
  17.     What ever happened to btoa?  It came out a bunch of years ago, but
  18. never seemed to catch on.  As I remember, it was touted as a replacement for
  19. uuencode with the advantage that it only incurred a 5/4ths expansion instead
  20. of 4/3rds.  Was there some reason why MIME didn't use btoa?
  21.