John Savage wrote:
I save posts from a midi music newsgroup, some are encoded with
yenc encoding. This gave me an opportunity to try out the decoders
in Python. The UU decoder works okay, but my YENC effort gives
results unexpected:
import yenc, sys
fd1=open(sys.argv[1],'r')
#yenc.encode(sys.argv[1],"outfile.yenc",bytes=0)
yenc.decode(sys.argv[1],"outfile.mid",bytes=0,crc_in='')
I confirmed that yenc.decode exactly reverses yenc.encode, BUT the
encoding itself seems to differ from the USENET standard.
I do not believe that there really is a yenc standard. I have noticed
that the yenc decoder in Mozilla Thunderbird never decodes posts from
certain posters (and hence certain encoders) whereas uu decoding only
sporadically fails.
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