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- From: Kari.Hurtta@Helsinki.FI (Kari E. Hurtta)
- Subject: Re: Binary to ASCII encodings (was Re: A better mousetrap)
- In-Reply-To: brownwm@aplcenmp.apl.jhu.edu's message of Fri, 11 Dec 1992 14: 39:56 GMT
- Message-ID: <KARI.HURTTA.92Dec11231952@kruuna.Helsinki.FI>
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- Sender: news@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Uutis Ankka)
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland
- References: <18287@mindlink.bc.ca> <1992Dec9.132902.7930@unipalm.co.uk>
- <1g5mtmINNfgk@daisy.ee.und.ac.za> <Bz3nEK.13H@aplcenmp.apl.jhu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 21:19:52 GMT
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- In article <Bz3nEK.13H@aplcenmp.apl.jhu.edu> brownwm@aplcenmp.apl.jhu.edu (William G. S. Brown) wrote:
- >>If, as I suspect, the real problem has to do with transporting binary
- >>files via email (or something similar), then I suggest MIME with
- >>``Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64''. See RFC 1341.
- > Could you clarify "MIME" and "RFC 1341" ?
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- Some problem? RFC stands for Reguest fo Comments. These are Internet standards.
- MIME stands for Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension. RFC 1341 documents
- MIME:
- Network Working Group N. Borenstein, Bellcore
- Request for Comments: 1341 N. Freed, Innosoft
- June 1992
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- MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions):
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- Mechanisms for Specifying and Describing
- the Format of Internet Message Bodies
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