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From: dougs@tvnews.tv.tek.com (Doug Stevens)
Newsgroups: alt.books.technical,comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Binary Postings (was: Errata file for UNDOCUMENTED DOS)
Message-ID: <1991May28.165033.3092@tvnews.tv.tek.com>
Date: 28 May 91 16:50:33 GMT
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Good grief, I wish a Unix guru somewhere would fix the binary posting process.
The system would work much better if you could write a header explaining what
you are posting, then 'enclose' the binary as you would on Novell networks,
and let the system figure out how to compress it, uuencode it, and send it.
At the other end, when you want to 'extract' the binary, the system should be
able to uudecode it and decompress it.

Can you imagine how much programmer time and money a feature like that could
save?

Having a background in both Unix and PC's, it always amazes me that Unix 
systems are so much more primitive than PC's when it comes to posting/sending 
mail.