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In article <C0LA9I.9AB@ra.nrl.navy.mil> atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson) writes:
>MIME works fine as is with gopher.  I can't imagine a reason why it
>wouldn't work fine with ftp as well.  There is serious discussion of
>adding MIME to USENET news as a new enhanced article format.

Forgive me for being stupid, but MIME states that certain information
necessary for unpicking the text should be carried in message headers
by the use of new header fields.  FTP does not have a concept of message
(or file) headers.  If it does "work" with FTP (e.g. to allow the
correct transmission of mixed text/binary files between systems with
different character codes, which is one application I have in mind)
it does so by some method not described in RFC 1341.  What I am asking
is what form this method takes, i.e. whether it is the use of the
MIME headers (MIME-Version, Content-Type etc.) as the first lines of
the file.