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From: Ken Pizzini <ken@halcyon.com>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Help to read file...
Date: 28 Feb 1997 08:15:37 GMT
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In article <5f4l8u$7ao$1@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu>,
Frank da Cruz <fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu> wrote:
>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.
Sources to [x]btoa can be found in comp.sources.unix volume 18.
I don't know why the ".unix" was used -- this is not Unix
specific code. You will need a C compiler to use it though.
For this specific case, provided you have access to a C compiler,
one can get around the problem of someone choosing a specialized
encoding, but I agree with Frank that it is quite annoying that
people blindly send attachments in program-specific formats
without first verifying that the recipient can handle such
a format.
--Ken Pizzini