Does anyone know where to find mime64 and pkzip libraries? I think the MIME
suggestion is brilliant. This is just the kind of application that MIME
designed for, i.e. packaging up arbitrary data for the purpose of passing it
between different platforms in a portable/transportable TEXT form. I would
have chosen .tgz format over pkzip but they are effectively equivalent and
who cares if it is hidden from the user. Neithor is good enough for the Mac.
Mac users wwould have to be satisfied with moving hqx files as single files.
Another nice thing about MIME is that it is extensible. We can enhance as
needed.
I suggest that a prototype start with the MIME encapsulation of a single
file which can be eithor binary or TEXT. That lets us handle platform
translation of CR/LF. Let the user zip and unzip it in the beginning. This
defers such user interface questions as where in the tree to do the extract.
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> : Grant McDorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> : If we decide on a way of handling the "line end" in
> binary, I can put
> : together an X application to handle it.
>
> I would suggest using pkzip format to handle multiple files
> (and compression), and MIME encapsulation to describe the
> content format and provide a binary encoding format.
>
> Indeed, MIME would allow the sender to tell any recipients
> what kind of lump they are getting, allowing for different
> encoding formats; I'd still suggest pkzip with compression
> and MIME base64 encoding as the defaults.
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