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- From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
- Subject: Re: The Problem with UNIX
- Message-ID: <BxKM7p.724@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
- References: <1992Nov9.172715.16367@cs.wisc.edu> <id.NEVU.Z2J@ferranti.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 21:26:12 GMT
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- In article <id.NEVU.Z2J@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
- >> Sending binary file should be uuencoded first.
- >
- >Nope. It should say "mail: Standard input contains NULL characters." And
- >abort.
-
- I disagree on this one. It should just work unless you are of the opinion
- that computers should not handle arbitrary binary data. SysVr4 gets
- this one right by checking the content before trying to display it but
- not before delivering it to the right place.
-
- Les Mikesell
- les@chinet.chi.il.us
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