UUencoding, UUdecoding, etc.

[Alexander Sarras]

On Mon, 22 May 2000 16:21:09 -0400, Jonathan B. Bayer wrote:

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> On Mon, 22 May 2000 22:13:42 +0200 (CED), Alexander Sarras wrote:
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> >On Mon, 22 May 2000 21:09:51 +0100 (BST), Simon Bowring wrote:
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> >> >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.
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> 
> 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.
> 
> 
Not necessarily. Using plaintext, the reecipient could pipe the emails
through uudeview ...
SaS
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