Re: Why BinSCII?

[danb@pro-newton.cts.com (Dan Brown)]

In <mnementhCpnrGn.8J7@netcom.com>
mnementh@netcom.com (David R. Villegas) writes:

>Since most of the binaries posts are Shrinkit archives, is there an advantage
>to using binscii rather than uuencode?  Considering that a good number of

        Yes--BinSCII's _lots_ smarter than uuencode/decode.  For instance, it
automatically recognizes (and ignores) anything that's not part of the
BinSCII file, and it puts the pieces in the correct order automatically. 
Also, as you mentioned, the files seem to be smaller.

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