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Reminds me of a cool tool I once used, uudecode.com, which was a DOS binary that only used 7-bit characters and could decode uuencoded (base64 predecessor) file
by bux93 2y ago
Reminds me of a cool tool I once used, uudecode.com, which was a DOS binary that only used 7-bit characters and could decode uuencoded (base64 predecessor) files. Was useful for getting attachments through e-mail in the face of all kinds of filters.
- eesmith 2y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16312317 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16312317 - "A C89 compiler that produces executables that are also valid ASCII text files" http://tom7.org/abc/ http://tom7.org/abc/ The paper for SIGBOVIK 2017 is both a text file and an executable.
- metadat 2y agoReally near. Also discussed 11 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36821985 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36821985 (15 comments)