Re: Commented search routine

[auerbach@xxxxxxxx (David Auerbach)]

On 06/13/96 at 10:04 AM,
  nsivin@xxxxxxxx (Nathan Sivin) said (in so many words):

>I have had quite a lot of trouble with UUencoding. Sysops are very
>familiar with it, and explain it by various disparities in character sets
>that a message encounters when it crosses a dozen servers and four or five
>platforms during the simple "jump" from thee to me. XX-encoding always
>works because of the much smaller character set, essentially letters of the
>alphabet and punctuation. I have had quite good luck, however, with mime
>attachments, which are UU-encoded. But if your server can't decode them,
>you can't do it independently, because of the lack of header data. Of
>course by "you" I mean "I"; Annie may well have licked this minor problem.

People send me uuencoded stuff and mime stuff all the time. With success.
I don't know what you mean by "if your server can't decode them..."
Anything my server can do, I can do better. Can it bake a pie...



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                     Regards,
                     David

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David Auerbach              auerbach@xxxxxxxx (David Auerbach)
Department of Philosophy & Religion
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