19 Mar
2017
19 Mar
'17
10:11 a.m.
I can't speak to the original question since I was not around at the time,
but uuencode is really cool. When I first saw it, probably in connexion
with a BBS of some kind, I immediately went and wrote my own 6.5 bit
encoder based on some number corresponding to the number of printable
characters available which when squared gave a 13 bit number. Played around
with this and gave it to a friend for fun to exchange messages in. But the
original is obviously much more in use :)
Nick
On Mar 19, 2017 1:41 PM, "Dave Horsfall" <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
On Sat, 18 Mar 2017, Mary Ann Horton wrote:
1. Originally, our files were all plain text and
we just included them
in
the email message body. The ~r command in
Kurt Shoen's Mail program
was
typical. There was no name for this, we were
just emailing files.
1.5 They started to include in-line shell scripts, then we piped them
into the "unshar" utility, which did basic security checks.
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."