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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Sun, 24 Dec 2006, Lee Forrest wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 25, 2006 at 12:02:05AM +0000, sindi keesan wrote:
> > I found source code base64-1.4.tar.gz (202K) which compiled perfectly with
> > the compiler and glibc from SW8.1 and is at my site and also attached.
>
> mimencode is only 9K. As far as I know it will mimencode (and
> decode) anything.

Which program is used to shrink the size of compiled binaries?  strip?
I will check my notes.

9k would fit into BL3.40 better, even on 2 floppies.
> > From the man page:
.....
>       By default, mimencode reads standard input,  and  sends  a
>       "base64"  encoded version of the input to standard output.

> That app must do a lot more than mimencode.
It does not list anything more.  Written in c - is mimencode assembler?
> > I experimented:  base64 wpce.ogg  - filled the screen with ascii.
>
> That's base64: In order to send something through the mails it has
> to be ascii, not binary.
>
> Here's the above man page excerpt in base64:
No characters except text.  uuencode uses the rest of the keyboard too.
Is this 6-bit instead of 7-bit?

> #REVTQ1JJUFRJT04KICAgICAgIFRoZSBtaW1lbmNvZGUgcHJvZ3JhbSBzaW1wbHkgY29udmVy
......

I would need to specify the file name some place too.  I will look at a 
mail with mime attachment.

> > Would I simply encode a binary file and then import it at the end of a
> > message written with pmail/pico?
>
> Not if you wanted the receiver's mail client to be able to deal with
> it. It needs the special header and boundary markers.
>
> Like your post here has.
.......

> > Could someone come up with simple scripts to send a prewritten message
> > body and a binary attachment that has not been decoded (using pipes?) and
> > to automatically decode a received message with attachment?
>
> If you'll figure out what the headers and boundary markers have to
> be, I'll write the script.
>
> > SEND $1 $2  $3 $4
> > where 1 - Subject 2 - To 3 - text message 4 - binary file to attach
> >
> > (I have not used pmail to download mails, forget how).
> >
> > or better yet, a script that deals with 1 2 and 4 but lets you write the
> > message text and then send it (or put in outbox).
>
> Neither choice is a problem.

I will provide more info later this week.

> > Based on pmail and base64, for those of us who don't need to authenticate
> > mail separately from dialin.
>
> It shouldn't matter what you are using to send the mail off. Just
> make sure it isn't piping the mail through something to alter it
> before sending.

I only have pmail.

Can you write your own small mail program that authenticates, maybe using 
telnet?  Does your ISP work to telnet mail?


> > I don't see a way to add the From (if different from the reply-to in
> > .pmailrc).
>
> That utility baffles me.
It is not intuitive, but Steven wrote a script for using it.  I cannot 
find a way to exit without his script except Ctrl C.

> Here's the same manpage excerpt in uuencode (once again, I've added
> the ^# to every line):
>
> #begin 660 foo2

File name, which is not in your above sample for base64.
> #M1$530U))4%1)3TX*("`@("`@(%1H92!M:6UE;F-O9&4@<')O9W)A;2!S:6UP
> #M;'D@8V]N=F5R=',@82!B>71E("!S=')E86T@(&EN=&\*("`@("`@"@H`

> Lee

Thanks for the explanations.
Sindi