On 23 May 97 at 14:46, Anthony Woo wrote:

Um...I don't suppose you could send this to us as a text attachment or
possibly just text that we clould read...?  I don't know, it might help
those of us who don't have pegasus mail or ucode...  

Well, you don't _really_ need Pegasus Mail to view these - all you 
need is the 'uudecode' program, which, if you are on a Unix system, 
should already be available, and free versions are available for 
pretty much every computing platform imaginable.

Seriously, though, UUencoding a text file is pointless. Well, worse 
than pointless, actually, as it will increase the file size by about 
35%.  The poster of this story would have been well advised to attach 
the story as a MIME attachment or simply included the story in the 
body of the message. 

 

- Sean Connor (connor@meena.cc.uregina.ca)

        "It jams." - Intel TV ad, referring to the Pentium chip.