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to: NATHAN HARTLEY
from: CARL MORRIS
date: 1996-06-13 02:48:00
subject: Re: File Distribution...

NH> Try to get some information on UUencoding and what ever the 64bit method 
is
NH> For those that don't know, its a method of encodeing a digital file to 
plai
NH> ASCII for transfering through E-Mail.  This would make it so you don't 
have
NH> have any special set up and if you find the file for the 64 bit 
conversion 
NH> text files are quite small.
One format is called UUENCODE and another is called BASE64, not 64bit, 
nstead
its a way to incode 8 bit data as 6 bit values (64 values ofset 33 or 32 from 
0) ... so text files get quite LARGE, 1/3 larger than they originally were...
just addingg comments .... not sure any of this is on topic...
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