David Shaw wrote:
> But you seem to be missing the point.  Uuencode (or GPG armor) creates  
> lines that are very difficult to type in.  There are no spaces, and  
> the character set includes uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and  
> symbols.  There is no CRC to help you type it back in again, so if  
> there is an error, you must proofread the whole file.  Plus, as you  
> say, it's around 100 lines long.

And depending on the printer font, you get the joy of '0' vs 'O'; '1' vs 'l';
and '8' vs 'B'.

I'll take 0-9A-F any day.

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