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In article <1992Oct28.154844.29202@cas.org>, 
lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) writes:
|> 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.  

I have seen a program called rapport that keeps information about
destinations and modifies how it sends information dependant upon the
system. It doesn't seem too difficult to build a similar system, a
simple text database like:

Michael.Salmon@eos.ericsson.se	=> mime

should be sufficient. If the list gets too big then switch to dbm or
some other database system. In short, there is no universal receiver
but a flexible (and hence hopefully universal) sender is very possible.

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Michael Salmon

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