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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:16:00 EST
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- From: Jim Jones <JIMJ@JHUVM.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: _possible_ death of BITNET
- In-Reply-To: Message of Thu,
- 21 Jan 1993 17:43:52 GMT from <rwwatt@WATSERV1.UWATERLOO.CA>
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- On Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:43:52 GMT Roger Watt said:
- >I've never been a devotee of communication via NMR, but I think the
- >unsolicitied file transfer is already a "done deal". MIME now gives me the
- >ability to include an arbitrary file as an "attachment" in the body of an
- >RFC822 mail object and send it to you in an RFC821 wrapper, and (if your
- >mail-reading tool supports MIME too) gives you the ability to save the
- >received "attachment" into a file of your choice. If that isn't
- >"unsolicited file transfer", it is pretty darned close.
-
- I don't think (please correct me if I'm wrong) that you can use MIME
- to send things like CMS SAS datasets, or MVS PDS's at this point. Can
- MIME accomodate items with a file-structures that need to be preserved?
- If so, then it is close, even if you have to extract it from mail...
-
- -jj
-
- PS - And I don't think it's just an IBM issue. VMS files can have
- very complex structures as well.
-