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- From: urle@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Uli Betzler (urle))
- Newsgroups: alt.gopher
- Subject: Re: Gopher Type 6 ???
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.153947.12717@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 15:39:47 GMT
- References: <1992Jul21.103839.5120@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <Brqo9v.5D6@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
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- Hello Don !
-
- In article <Brqo9v.5D6@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, gilbertd@sunflower.bio.indiana.edu (Don Gilbert) writes:
- |> Type 6 is not a new type, it was assigned for UU encoded files
- |> a while back. It seems to have been dropped from release 1.0,
- |> but I missed noticing that. The reason that uuencoded type
- |> is in this patch, which I wrote, is that on my archive, there
- |> are lots of encoded files, including binhex (mac) and uuencoded
- |> (pc, unix, vms). I generally do not know, nor does the server
- |> computer know, what is inside these uuencoded files. So it
- |> is hard to assign them as text or binary. However, uuencoded
- |> files could be treated as text type, if no one else wants
- |> to support type 6.
-
- ... but what should the client do with this type ?
- The client doesn't know, what's in the file - so he only can copy it as
- it is. The only advantage of type 6 is, that the gopher-server uudecodes
- the file instead of the client.
-
- The question is: should we spent an extra type for this point or could we
- treat this problem like the compressed files ?
- One possible way could be: 1. uuencode the first part of the file and
- 2. test, if it's text or binary stuff and treat it correctly.
-
- I think, this behaviour is easy to implement into the server - right ?
-
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