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From: jhc@mtune.UUCP (Jonathan Clark)
Newsgroups: net.bugs
Subject: Re: bugs in /bin/mail - not this time
Message-ID: <755@mtune.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 24-Oct-86 01:36:05 EDT
Article-I.D.: mtune.755
Posted: Fri Oct 24 01:36:05 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 21-Oct-86 04:08:52 EDT
References: <1185@hoptoad.uucp> <3000002@cdp>
Reply-To: jhc@mtune.UUCP (Jonathan Clark)
Organization: AT&T ISL Middletown NJ USA
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Summary: nonsense

In article <3000002@cdp> scott@cdp.UUCP writes:
>How can you send binaries in mail.

You can't. That's why uucp(1) and uuto(1) were invented. Encoding is
cheating.

You could if /bin/mail supported a logical separation between a letter
and its envelope. As I know nothing about X.400 except that it weighs
more than I care to read, and very little about other mail delivery
systems, let me ask a possibly stupid question: do any other mail
subsystems support this separation so that binaries could be mailed?

-- 
Jonathan Clark
[NAC,attmail]!mtune!jhc

My walk has become rather more silly lately.