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From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Time for 8 bit news, isn't it?????.
Message-ID: <1990Jul22.062034.20896@looking.on.ca>
Date: 22 Jul 90 06:20:34 GMT
References: <1990Jul13.022224.25441@lth.se> <3119.269d97ea@mccall.com> <777@hades.ausonics.oz.au> <15688@bfmny0.BFM.COM> <1990Jul21.054016.10409@looking.on.ca> <1990Jul21.231352.6234@zoo.toronto.edu>
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C news may indeed *handle* arbitrary byte stream messages, but does it
*support* them?

In particular, input programs like inews must deal with them, and a new
header line must be added to classify article body types.  Many body types
are possible, including:
	ascii + underlining	(current default)
	extended ascii		(international char sets, etc.)
	rich text		(of some format)
	andrew message
	non-interpreted binary	(programs, etc.)
	binary with text header
	XXX format bitmap	(gif, tif)

In particular, I would devise code words for every format, such that those
code words could conveniently be the names of output programs in some
directory, with the default built into the reader, of course.

-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473