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Splitting Files

Uuencoding does not describe a mechanism for splitting a file into two or more messages for separate mailing or posting. Usually, the encoded file is simply split into parts of more or less equal line count13. Before the age of smart decoders, the recipient had to manually concatenate the parts and remove the headers in between, because the headers of mail messages might just be valid uuencoded data lines, thus potentially corrupting the data.



2005-01-11