Unnecessary tar-compress-uuencodes

[Gert Kanis]

In article <24445 at estelle.udel.EDU> new at ee.udel.edu (Darren New) writes:
>we might want to consider a new version of UUENCODE that avoids
>any characters that are not available in EBCDIC.  I have one that
>uses only +-*/ 0-9 A-Z a-z and has checksums on each line.
>
>-- Darren

You might be refering to xxencode (and xxdecode). This has been posted at
least a few times (I think).
Of course the reactions to yet another encoder that expands your files more
than uuencode are very unenthousiastic.
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