UUencoding, UUdecoding, etc.

[Jonathan B. Bayer]

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On Mon, 22 May 2000 11:37:28 -0700, Curtis Delzer wrote:

>What if an ISP cannot accept messages larger than XXX and you need to
>send one.  In NetTamer, for example, (a dos based PPP mail/ftp/http
>client, messages which are sent with UUencoding can be broken up into
>as many message(s) as needed because I believe it is one of the
>abilities of that particular scheme to do it.  In PMMail, I notice that
>UUENCODING and UUDECODING are available, but message length is not. 
>Any ideas other than going into the otherthan program or outside
>program to create messages?

It is not a "feature" of uuencoding to be able to split up a file. 
That is a "feature" of NetTamer, and whatever other e-mail clients do
that.

UUencoding is merely a way to encode a binary file as text so that the
e-mail systems can handle it.


JBB

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