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Re: ASCII and BINARY files. Why?
- To: dahms at ifk20 dot mach dot uni-karlsruhe dot de
- Subject: Re: ASCII and BINARY files. Why?
- From: Jim Balter <jqb at netcom dot com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 18:56:20 -0800
- CC: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Organization: JQB Enterprises
- References: <009AF2AD.8E452080.8737@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de>
dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de wrote:
>
> Hi, you wrote:
>
> : Content-Type: application/x-zip-compressed; name="fran.zip"
> : Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
>
> My mailer can't handle base64 nor quoted/printable.
> (But it handles 8bit Latin1 or the proprietary VMS mail foreign format 8-)
> RFC1920 still lists MIME as draft/elective...
> Can you please send again uuencoded or put this on an FTP server?
>
> Bye, Heribert (dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de)
It was just a piece of text without CR's. If you aren't mounted -b,
you can still produce plenty of your own with
#include <stdio.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
int c;
setmode(fileno(stdout), O_BINARY);
while ((c = getchar()) != EOF) putchar(c);
return 0;
}
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