UUencodeing and decodeing
All
files that are sent through the Internet must be transformed into
a format that the Internet will accept.
This transformation is called encoding. OUI supports two methods
of encoding: UUEncoding and Base64
encoding. We recommend that you use UUEncoding as more programs
support it. However, Base64 is
considered a somewhat superior method, so if you cannot use
UUEncoding, or you know that the recipient
of the message has Base64 (MIME) support, use Base64 instead. We
strongly discourage using Base64
encoding for Usenet posts at this time. In the future, it is
likely that more newsreaders will have MIME and
Base64 capabilities, but at the time of this writing, that is not
the case.
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