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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
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Subject: Re: Help to read file...
Date: 27 Feb 1997 18:54:22 GMT
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In article <5f2ove$4sb@tom.pppl.gov>,
augusto rousset <arousset@true.net> wrote:
: I received an e-mail with the following message in it. �Can someone
: tell me how to view the binary file, protocol Kermit or X-modem?
:
: > Sigue archivo binario - Capturelo con "c" y el protocolo Kermit o X-modem
: >BINARY FILE FOLLOWS
: >xbtoa Begin
: Translated:
: >Follows binary file- Capture it with "c" and protocol Kermit or X-modem
: >BINARY FILE FOLLOWS
: >xbtoa Begin
:
It's not really a Kermit question. You got this text in an email message,
right?
This is yet another example of people sending you things in email that you
can't read. "btoa" means "binary to ascii" -- the opposite of "atob".
It's a pair of UNIX programs like uuencode/uudecode, but different. Of course
everybody who sends email assumes that the people they are sending it to have
exactly the same hardware and software, and so use any kind of platform-
depending encoding methods they know about.
btoa and atob are not standard parts of UNIX -- you have to hunt around the
Internet to find them. I don't know what the difference between btoa and
xbtoa might be. Of course if you are not on a UNIX system then you probably
can't read this file at all.
Whenever I get mail like this (e.g. a Microsoft Word document as a MIME
attachment) -- which happens about 37 times a day -- I simply return the
message to the sender and remind them that not everybody is using the same
hardware and software that they are, and ask them to resend it in some format
that I have a prayer of dealing with.
- Frank