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From: jrd@cc.usu.edu (Joe Doupnik)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Help to read file...
Message-ID: <1997Mar10.121714.95423@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 10 Mar 97 12:17:13 MDT
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In article <5fto4c$ms2@tom.pppl.gov>, arousset@true.net (augusto rousset) writes:
> 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?
Given your work address in the header getting local answers should
be a snap. I refer you to them for "what is a C compiler". Kermit's are
not general purpose file-format conversion programs, and below Frank
indicated how to go about locating one which might solve your problem.
Joe D.
> 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
>