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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.bugs
Subject: Re: bugs in /bin/mail
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Date: Fri, 17-Oct-86 16:47:35 EDT
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> How can you send binaries in mail.

You can't, not reliably.  Mail is definitely a text-only facility.
Whether this is a good idea or not is another question, but the current
software definitely has that restriction.

> What happens if the string
> "\nFrom" appears in te binary?  Shouldn't the user agent or
> delivery system or someone be inserting a '>' before the From?

Yup.

> Won't this screw up the binary...

Yup, it will.  This is why uuencode and uudecode exist, for encoding
binaries as text.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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