Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > > I agree we should have it, but I thought the problem was that we
> > > couldn't come up with an API that worked.
> >
> > AFAIR, no one's really tried yet. I do not recall any proposals
> > getting shot down ...
>
> I keep bugging Jan about it, since pre-7.1 and no one has come up with
> an idea. I think the lack of any proposal or anyone even mentioning
> they liked the idea made me give up, especially when uuencode at least
> gave us binary in/out.
Can anyone recall, why was uuencode chosen over base64 encoding ?
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Hannu
