Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!world!decwrl!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!crdgw1!barnett From: barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: MAC MS-MAIL to SMTP gateway? Message-ID: Date: 9 Oct 90 16:19:46 GMT References: <34162@cup.portal.com> <26FE4E59.1748@intercon.com> <546@fciva.FRANKLIN.COM> <2707782A.6C5@intercon.com> <14017@slice.ooc.uva.nl> <1990Oct5.072457.17013@news.arc.nasa.gov> <1990Oct5.211803.11653@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1990Oct7.202139.1538@paperboy.micro.u Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: barnett@crdgw1.ge.com Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 19 In-reply-to: mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu's message of 7 Oct 90 20:21:39 GMT In article <1990Oct7.202139.1538@paperboy.micro.umn.edu> mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu (Mark P. McCahill) writes: > I think there already is a de-facto standard. > Everybody is already using binhex. Robert Minich made a valid point. If someone on a Mac wants to mail a friend a GIF image, it would be nice if that person could decode that image even if they have never seen a Macintosh. I guess the Unix person still needs the program single(1), which Cayman ships with the package. I don't think it is valid to assume that everyone on a Unix machine has a program that will understand BINHEX files. At least GatorMail-M comes complete - with sources and manual page for single(1). If they wanted to ship some other program, they would need permission from the author, legal arraignments, etc. -- Bruce G. Barnett barnett@crd.ge.com uunet!crdgw1!barnett