From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 5 17:17:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFDC7152BC for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 17:16:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id KAA11799; Sat, 6 Mar 1999 10:16:21 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <36E07AEC.101F3467@newsguy.com> Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 09:46:36 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: alk@pobox.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: base64 References: <14048.10089.598598.919239@avalon.east> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tony Kimball wrote: > > Quoth Julian Elischer : > : the patch is in base64.. > : how do you read base64 files? > > This raises a good point: The base system should include mechanisms > for MIME. It's rather basic. Why? It doesn't even include a decent mail reader. If you are going to install a mail reader, anyway, you can install a mime extra, if needed at all (most mail readers do not require it). -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "FreeBSD is Yoda, Linux is Luke Skywalker." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message