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From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Posting binary data in binary form
Message-ID: <10849@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 8 Jan 89 20:35:52 GMT
References: <6182@hoptoad.uucp> <271@logicon.arpa>
Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae)
Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences
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In article <271@logicon.arpa> Makey@LOGICON.ARPA (Jeff Makey) writes:
<In article <6182@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
<>(Referring to a standard for sending databases over the net):
<>> =- Format can be ASCII or UUENCODED binary.
<>We have two new versions of netnews coming out within the month -- C
<>news and TMNN (News 3.0).  I believe both of them are 8-bit-clean, that
<>is, the data part of a message can have any 8-bit characters in it
<>(including nulls and very long lines).  ...
<Even if it is true, posting binary files in binary format is a bad
<idea for several reasons:

And not just the reasons that Jeff states ..

Not all links are "8-bit-clean" ... the one we run across BITNET
is an example.
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