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Date:      Tue, 25 Mar 1997 10:13:01 PST
From:      Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
To:        asami@vader.cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
Cc:        wosch@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org, mita@jp.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: -current uudecode can't grok one of japanese/vfxdvi's distfiles 
Message-ID:  <97Mar25.101310pst.177486@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 24 Mar 97 23:26:17 PST." <199703250726.XAA01567@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> 

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asami@vader.cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) wrote:
>Do a boundary check for body characters. Characters less than 33 or
>greater than 96 are out of range.

This is not true.  The original uuencode used characters in the range
[32,95] .  uuencode was modified to output 96 instead of 32 because
32 got munched on its way through too many mail gateways, but 32 is
still a valid input character.

  Bill



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