From: jqb AT netcom DOT com (Jim Balter)
Subject: Re: ASCII and BINARY files. Why?
30 Jan 1997 22:20:04 -0800
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dahms AT ifk20 DOT mach DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de wrote:
> 
> Hi, you wrote:
> 
> : Content-Type: application/x-zip-compressed; name="fran.zip"
> : Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> 
> My mailer can't handle base64 nor quoted/printable.
> (But it handles 8bit Latin1 or the proprietary VMS mail foreign format 8-)
> RFC1920 still lists MIME as draft/elective...
> Can you please send again uuencoded or put this on an FTP server?
> 
> Bye, Heribert (dahms AT ifk20 DOT mach DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de)

It was just a piece of text without CR's.  If you aren't mounted -b,
you can still produce plenty of your own with

#include <stdio.h>
#include <fcntl.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
  int c;
  setmode(fileno(stdout), O_BINARY);
  while ((c = getchar()) != EOF) putchar(c);
  return 0;
}

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