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Subject: WKS files as externally-defined body parts
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Date: 20 Nov 89 17:25:00 GMT
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>X-Originator: "Johan Lundberg TeleDelta (Swedish Telecom)" <JOHANL@com.qz.se>

I know that NIST in US has an agreement to use the body part
bilaterlly defined to transfer binary data. Severla implementor
already support this. Of course there is a drawback; you can
not distinguish between different types of binary files. If you
intend to automate something i would go for a externally defined
body part. The problem is of course that there are noone that
care about registering OBJECT IDENTIFIERS.
One solution wold be to register your own and use that.
     
Johan Lundberg, TeleDelta Sweden