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- From: jack@ccsf.caltech.edu (Jack Stewart)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.mime
- Subject: Re: X.400 and multimedia mail
- Date: 11 Dec 1992 18:15:54 GMT
- Organization: CCSF Caltech, Pasadena, CA
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- References: <1g5cpdINNob@nigel.msen.com> <1992Dec10.101834.15981@ericsson.se> <davecb.724004446@yorku.ca> <1992Dec11.153138.2198@ericsson.se>
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- As I understand, the main reason for MIME to use base64 encoding (as
- opposed to uuencode, 8bit transparent, XDR, or BER ) was that they
- needed an encoded scheme that would remain uncorrupted accross all
- platforms and architectures and existing mailers. Apparently this is
- a real problem with IBM VM/CMS machines. base64 encoding was the only
- thing that would survive these machines. Hopefully these machines
- will go away some day and then we can use a more reasonable encoding
- mechanism.
-
- ---Jack
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