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Article #588Re: bugs in /bin/mail
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1986 20:47
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1986 20:47
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> How can you send binaries in mail.
You can't, not reliably. Mail is definitely a text-only facility.
Whether this is a good idea or not is another question, but the current
software definitely has that restriction.
> What happens if the string
> "\nFrom" appears in te binary? Shouldn't the user agent or
> delivery system or someone be inserting a '>' before the From?
Yup.
> Won't this screw up the binary...
Yup, it will. This is why uuencode and uudecode exist, for encoding
binaries as text.
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Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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