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Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 08:43:56 -0700
From: Thomas Webb <tawebb AT earthlink DOT net>
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To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Text file format .ASC ?
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sounds like uuencode - uudecode

"da Silva, Joe" wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> 
> Does anyone know how to decypher a text file, with filename
> extension ".ASC", which seems to :
> 
> 1. Use the ASCII character set for characters up to *about*
>    96 ($60). That is, includes numerals, punctuation, space,
>    CR/LF pairs, but not the lower case characters, etc.
> 
> 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' ...
> 
> The above clues were obtained from the following fragment :
> 2C 20 6D 50 43 34 39 34 43 2C 20         , mPC494C,
> 
> I'm sure the file must be in a non-Roman language, but it
> does not seem to be a Unicode format, nor does it seem
> to be any of the (many) strange encoding schemes I have
> found information on via the web (there seem to be many,
> many more of these, than I had previously suspected ...).
> 
> TIA,
> Joe.

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