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From: mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU (Mark Crispin)
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Subject: Re: NeXT multi-media message file format
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Date: 28 Sep 90 19:04:42 GMT
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In article <cb0qMBW00VpaIIFEd6@andrew.cmu.edu> rd0k+@andrew.cmu.edu (Richard Drew Dean) writes:
>NeXT's multi-media mail is RFC-822 compatible and formatted something like:
>	take all the stuff which isn't plain ASCII, and tar/compress/uuencode
>it into the message body.  The trick here is compress; the filename part
>of the uuencoded file does _not_ end in .Z, but the file has been run
>through compress. 
>	Send a Next message to yourself on a Sun/VAX/generic Un*x box, strip
>the headers with your favorite editor, uudecode, uncompress, tar -xvf,
>and you'll have the right things....

Ahem.  You said "formatted something like".  The's the whole point.
It's pretty easy for a human to take a NeXT Mail message and
unscramble it on some other platform.  It is quite another thing for
an application to do so with all possible forms of NeXT Mail, much
less compose a message that is guaranteed to be compatible with NeXT
Mail, without a *complete* specification.

In any case, RFC-1154 is a standard, and offers a superset of the
apparent NeXT Mail format.

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