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From: minich@d.cs.okstate.edu (Robert Minich)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: binhex v. uuencode enclosures
Message-ID: <1990Oct6.074537.14443@d.cs.okstate.edu>
Date: 6 Oct 90 07:45:37 GMT
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Organization: Oklahoma State University
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  Pardon my arrogance, but why not support both uuencode AND binhex? I am not
familiar with the method of enclosure, but surely it's not THAT hard. It's
nice to have uuencode to talk to non-Mac people on the net (the vast majority)
as well as the Rest Of Us (tm). For instance, say I wanted to mail a colleague
a nice GIF from my Mac to his ???. Just send it as uuencode and he can do
something with it even if ??? is a Mac since his software supports both
flavors. So really... how hard _is_ it to support the uuencoded enclosures?

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