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   Kerr-Mudd,John to Herbert Kleebauer   
   Re: Look back to "just for the H@ck"   
   30 Aug 17 21:08:09   
   
   From: notsaying@nospicedham.invalid.org   
      
   Herbert Kleebauer  wrote in   
   news:okggqs$1ure$1@gioia.aioe.org:   
      
   > On 16.07.2017 17:26, wolfgang kern wrote:   
   >   
   >> but now we seem to be restricted to Terje's demand which disallow   
   >> quote-marks and characters outside of the Base64 defined range.   
   >>   
   >> Why ? All standard internet protocols can use 0x20..0x7e and also   
   >> allow (by 8bit ASCII extension) all local chars required from 0x80..   
   >   
   > I had two restrictions for the used characters:   
   >   
   > 1. It must be possible to generate the binary file by echo statements   
   >    in a batch file. So no <>|%!^ is allowed. Because echo always   
   >    terminates a line by , there is no need to tolerate only   
   >     or  as a line termination.   
   >   
   > 2. It must be possible to transfer the batch file by email or usenet   
   >    without modification.   
   >   
   >   
   > I had a two line decoding header:   
   >   
   > hD1X-s0P_kUHP0UxGWX4ax1y1ieimnfeinklddmemkjanmndnadmndnpbbn   
   > hhpbbnpljhoxolnhaigidpllnbkdnhlkfhlflefblffahfUebdfahhfkokh   
   >   
   > The binary following this two lines was encoded as 6 bits per byte   
   > using the characters a-z, A-Z, 0-9, @ and /.   
   >   
   [Annie]   
   >   
      
   Wish I'd run this through debug earlier!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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