Re: Why BinSCII?

[stuckey@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Anthony J. Stuckey)]

danb@pro-newton.cts.com (Dan Brown) writes:
>        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.

	UUencode has an overhead of 35%.  3 bytes -> 4 characters, plus 1
length character as the first on every line.  Binscii does do a more compact
encoding.
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KiboNumber == 1