Re: Snail mailing a FAQ?

mathew (mathew@mantis.co.uk)
Wed, 28 Sep 1994 11:42:38 +0100

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In message <199409281029.LAA06883@strider.inet.it>,
Piero Serini writes:
>> Right, we were talking about sending compressed (binary) files. There's
>> 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.)

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. 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.

If uuencode worked, MIME would have used it.

mathew

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