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From: ken@argus.UUCP (Kenneth Ng)
Newsgroups: net.bugs
Subject: Re: bugs in /bin/mail - not this time
Message-ID: <534@argus.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 18-Oct-86 22:57:58 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct 18 22:57:58 1986
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In article <755@mtune.UUCP>, jhc@mtune.UUCP (Jonathan Clark) writes:
> 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.
> 
As long as all the sites on the path are Unix machines you are probably
ok.  But if it should encounter other machines on the way I wouldn't
trust uucp or uuto at all.  The worst case is if "smart" mailer routes
it over bitnet for speed purposes.  I seriously doubt if there will
be ANYTHING usable after it goes to bitnet and back.

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