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In article <17OCT199219151467@utarlg.uta.edu> b645zax@utarlg.uta.edu (David Richardson) writes:
:In article <1992Oct17.180430.12616@u.washington.edu>, gray@cac.washington.edu (Terry Gray) writes...
:>In article <92291.111059RROXBY@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> RROXBY@MAINE.MAINE.EDU (Robert Roxby) writes:
:>>I will send $10 (USA) in cash to the first person that can give me a
:>>satisfactory answer to this question, or if that isn't enough,
:>>let's negotiate.
:> 
:>So what's the answer?
:> 
:>MIME.  That stands for Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, and it 

:(Drum roll)
:Create a script that Debug.exe will read and whose output file is the desired
:file (everyone (?) has \dos\debug).
:

:On unix, use shell scripts.  On the Mac, you are SOL (unless someone can
:figure out a way to do this in a type-inable hypercard script) without non-
:in-the-box utilities, such as ResEdit or a disk-editor.


and there is the rub.  The fellow wanted a way to send a file regardless of
type.  And there is no way to do that in a guaranteed to work fashion.
Some sites do not support uudecode.  Some sites do not support mime.  Some
sites do not support Mac resources.  Some sites do not support shell scripts.

Since there are sites which do not support shell or C, you cannot even send
CODE to the person.  
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