Re: XX-ratings

[OkAnnie@xxxxxxxx]

"[...] what exactly *would* work on your system." --Carl Distefano

Carl: UUencoding, flawlessly.

"I had assumed that XX-coding based on the standard code table
and lookup procedure and was not OS-sensitive and would decode
properly across platforms." --CD

I'd certainly have thought so too, but my perfectly respectable
en/decoder reports "nothing to decode" at every XXencoded
file--even those it XXencoded itself. I'm inclined to blame such
lapses on my antique rombios rather than my dos. At any rate, my
en/decoder has no problem *ever* decoding UUencoding.


"Our standard for binary file transmission is binary form, for
those who want to download via FTP. Are you really unable to do
FTP? [...] You are the only person so far who finds FTP, MIME
(UU, and thus not highly reliable), and
XXBUG all unusable, or at least the only one who has said so."
--Nathan Sivin

Nathan: Huh? What did I write that led you to jump to this
conclusion? I never mentioned FTP, MIME, or downloading. (I find
that quoting the msg I'm responding to is a help in not
misrepresenting it.) My remarks were limited to XXBUG,
UUencoding, and XXencoding; of course I was discussing only
encoded msgs posted as email to the list.

"[...] XXBUG [...] doesn't require special decoding software."
--NS

XXBUG requires other special software: debug, which requires MS
DOS or PC DOS to perform. XXBUG is an clever utility, quite
useful if you can be sure that the recipient uses MS or PC DOS.
But not all 80x86s run under one or the other. Mine does not. I'd
rather hoped for a better reason to switch to a gui
OS than the ability to use XXBUG.

"But--don't aol users get ftp?" --Harmon Seaver

Harmon: I got an alarmed warning from an old friend (a newbie)
this a.m. about a virus sweeping the 'net ... called Good Times
. ... Of course we get ftp. Oh, the burden of living in the
cyberslums. ;)

"Re the VA files [...] I'll try to figure out a way to transmit
them in
ASCII, without resort to binary files or encoding. If I fail,
I'll send a separate copy as an attachment to anyone on AOL."
--Tim Baehr

Tim: This side of the tracks does have its charms. Thanks
(again), Tim.   --A

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