UUencoding, UUdecoding, etc.

[Jonathan B. Bayer]

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On Mon, 22 May 2000 22:13:42 +0200 (CED), Alexander Sarras wrote:

>On Mon, 22 May 2000 21:09:51 +0100 (BST), Simon Bowring wrote:
>
>> >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.
>> 
>> True, but note that nearly all GUI newsreaders implement this, 
>> feature including PMINews - the companion to PMMail/2 written by 
>> the same authors.
>> 
>> I'm not sure how common this "feature" is in mailers though!
>> 
>You can simulate that behaviour using pgp.


The built-in pgp or the external pgp?  Either way, it will require the
receiving mailer to be able to understand the way the file is split up.


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