From:	"Bill Marcum" <bmarcum AT iglou DOT com>
To:	<opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Text file format .ASC ?
Date:	Tue, 6 Mar 2001 14:40:11 -0500
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-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Webb <tawebb AT earthlink DOT net>
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Date: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 10:48 AM
Subject: Re: Text file format .ASC ?


>sounds like uuencode - uudecode
>
>> 2. Use some other encoding for characters above *about*
>>    96 ($60). For instance, character 109 ($6D) is either the
>>    the Roman letter 'u' or the Greek letter "mu", whereas in
>>    ASCII, this should be the Roman letter 'm' ...
>>
No, uuencode would look like a lot of random characters, with each
line beginning with a capital M.  There would be nothing readable except
"begin 000 filename" and "end".  I've never seen ".ASC" used for
anything other than a plain text file, and maybe the writer just chose
to use a lower case "m" instead of "u" or "µ".

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