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- From: pg@sanitas.stortek.com (Paul Gilmartin)
- Subject: Re: XXENCODE and XXDECODE
- Message-ID: <1992Dec11.181425.12679@stortek.com>
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- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 18:14:25 GMT
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- John S. Fisher (FISHER@RPIECS.BITNET) wrote:
- : > . . .
-
- : Since the "standard" file encoding methods are Unix-based, and
- : since Unix has such a meager concept of what characteristics a
- : file might have, you are going to need something extra to transfer
- : CMS files.
-
- Viewing the same fact with the opposite bias, one might say that the
- Unix file system is so simple that Unix users don't need to waste
- their time doing this kind of mickeymouse.
-
- : Here's my suggestion, however crummy it may be:
-
- [ about a screenful of painful circumvention deleted ]
-