On 26 Aug 96 12:00am, Don Nickell wrote to Frederick Sohn:
 DN> I don't understand a couple of things here. 1) Why xxencode is
 DN> necessary, and 2) why your copy of LHA (LHA213.EXE, 1991?) 
 DN> doesn't both compress and de-compress.
The purpose is to convert a binary file to text which can then be
transmitted in the form of one or more echo messages.  Common ways
of doing it are Debug scripts and UUencoding.  (Macs use Binhex.)
One would still need to have LHA if the content were a LZH file.
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