Re: Kodovani

[Petr Skala <skala@unl.pvt.cz>]

On Fri, 21 Feb 1997, Lukas Kumpera wrote:

> Moh' by tady nekdo v rychlosti vysvetlit rozdil mezi Base64 a
> UUkodovanim? Jestli to teda neni totalne mimo misu...

neni ;)

tady je vypis z manualovy stranky:

Base64 is intended to be a replacement for uuencode for mail and  news  use.
The  reason  is  simple:  uuencode doesn't  work  very  well in a number of
circumstances and ways.  In particular, uuencode uses characters that  don't
translate  well  across  all  mail  gateways (particularly ASCII <-> EBCDIC
gateways). Also, uuencode is  not  standard -- there are several variants
floating around, encoding and decoding  things in different and incompatible
ways, with no "standard" on which to base an implementation. Finally, uuencode
does not generally work well in a pipe,  although some variants have been
modified to do so. Base64 implements the encodings which were defined  for
MIME  as uuencode replacements, and should be considerably more robust for
email use.

						Schizzy

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