I think we're getting religious pro/con Mac & MIME.
This will be the last message to the list, let's take this offline :)
Quoting from mathew (Wed Sep 28 11:42:19 1994):
> >> only one *standard* for that on the Internet, MIME.
> >
> >No. There's uuencode, available on VMS, Un*x, MS-DOS, OS/2, Mac, ...
>
> And different (and often incompatible) on every single one of them.
> (I speak from experience here.)
Oh, you unfortunate! :)
> UUencode for the Mac? Don't make me laugh. I'm a Mac user. If I get
> a MIME file, the mailer automatically decodes it for me and produces a
> nice little icon.
I understand. Unfortunately, Macs are not the vast majority of
computer users. I perfectly agree on the fact it's easier for the
end user to use Word on Mac rather than vi+TeX on another plat-
form.
> If I get a uuencode file... well, I have to save
> the mail out into a TEXT file, find a uudecode program, run it through
> that, load the output into ResEdit to put in an appropriate type and
> creator... Yuck.
But you still can do it. I think the point is:
Mac The rest of the world :) strange OSes (DOS, ...)
uuencode avail. standard avail.
MIME nice maybe impossible (*) avail.
----
NOTE: (*) I know of sites who sill refuse to install MIME, and I can't
blame them.
> If uuencode worked, MIME would have used it.
Please! uuencode honestly worked since '60, and I think you can
make it wark on every platform, despite all the difficulties you
had. On the other side, I'm not VMS expert but I bet you can run
uuencode on VMS far before you installed MIME (if you can do it
at all).
Note I'm not saying drop MIME. This would be idiot. I'm simply
suggesting not to rely on it (yet. Maybe in the future, but not
yet).
Have a nice day,
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