Date: 13 Feb 1997 15:14:12 +0000 From: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk> To: jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby) Cc: jb@cimlogic.com.au, terry@lambert.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MIME applications for FreeBSD Message-ID: <5720akybzv.fsf@tees.elsevier.co.uk> In-Reply-To: jehamby@lightside.com's message of Wed, 12 Feb 1997 20:50:59 -0800 References: <199702130450.UAA01601@lightside.com>
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jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby) writes: > Absolutely! Although figuring out the lowest common denomintor for, e.g. > rich text, often leads to all sorts of oddities. For example, I just > received a price quote for a Micron PC by E-Mail, in of all things, > UUENCODED RTF format! As I happily uudecoded it, and imported it into > WordPerfect 6.0 for UNIX on my SPARCstation, I couldn't help but wonder All my mail in work that comes from Groupwise accounts i.e. most of it, arrives as uuencoded wp files. I think Groupwise does the uuencoding at some point, possibly at the smtp gateway although it may do it for all mail and transparently uudecodes it upon receipt. I stay away from the internal mechanics of groupwise whenever possible :-) -- Dr Paul Richards. Originative Solutions Ltd. (Netcraft Ltd. contractor) Elsevier Science TIS online journal project. Email: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 (0)1865 843155
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