Re: How to reconstitute Computist posts?

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In article <pan.2005.05.15.19.57.51.579994@emeraldcity.gov>,
The Wizard of Oz  <wizard@emeraldcity.gov> wrote:
>On Sat, 14 May 2005 20:59:10 -0400, Martin Doherty wrote:
>
>> Mike,
>> 
>> Would you mind posting a quick idiot's guide on how to turn your 
>> postings on cba2 back into their original forms for viewing?
>> 
>> I have no idea what YENC is. As Schultz said, "I KNOW NOTHING!"
>> 
>> Martin
>
>	This isn't a "me too" post detailing the same information as the other
>followups. I'll add some background so you can see the need for yenc or
>uuenccode.
>
>	If you take a look at the posts directly you will see they are all in 7
>bit ASCII. In simple terms all the characters you can type in at the
>keyboard minus the control characters and the extended characters you can
>get with the alt key and keypad. Depending on the computer you are using

Nice discussion of file encoding methods.  uuencode, binscii, binhex etc.
use 7bit chars for encoding.  Thus, straight ASCII text coding.  yenc uses
a larger charset with 8bit chars.  These yenc files get corrupted when
passing through a server expecting 7bit chars.  Thus, yenc works OK for
many users, but not for people on a 7bit newsfeed.  yenc was never
guaranteed to work, it just happens to work in most installations.  Think
of it as a binary file of encoded data.

Thus, my peeve, is that I have a 7bit newsfeed. yenc encoding is corrupt.
uu, binscii, binhex etc. are fine.  Like, uuencoded, binscii, binhex
files, yenc files need to be decoded to render the original binary file.

  --Steve

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 --Steve  (apple2pd@ground.ecn.uiowa.edu)