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by bellyfullofbac 1644 days ago
I wonder if they just reinvented UU-(en,de)code: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uuencoding

I guess it'll go... nowhere.
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Thoreandan 1644 days ago
There's been prior art, I was immediately reminded of Ascii85

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary-to-text_encoding#Encodi...

Incidentally every Windows desktop now has UUENCODE built in

  C:\>dir > %TEMP%\foo && tar -cf - --format shardump %TEMP%\foo
Finally I can extract those usenet archives. :)
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