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From: arousset@true.net (augusto rousset)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Help to read file...
Date: Sun, 09 Mar 1997 07:17:36 GMT
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I want to thank Frank and Ken for their help, tough this wasn't a
kermit question. I have not enough knowledge of all this encoding
matters, and i'm still trying to solve this problem.
�Could you tell me what a C compiler is?
I've been looking other postings in this newsgroup and saw the
announcement of MS Kermit for DOS. �Can't this program
help me to view the kind of file I want?
Thank you again
Augusto Rousset
arousset@true.net
Ken Pizzini <ken@halcyon.com> wrote:
>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
Augusto Rousset
arousset@true.net