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[Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com>]

On Mon, Dec 25, 2006 at 03:08:31PM +0000, sindi keesan wrote:
> 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.

If the executable hasn't been stripped, that would do it.

(I think that refers to debugging symbols that aren't needed
after the code is stable.)

> 
> 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?

No. It's more like encryption.

> >>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?

Don't know.

> 
> >#REVTQ1JJUFRJT04KICAgICAgIFRoZSBtaW1lbmNvZGUgcHJvZ3JhbSBzaW1wbHkgY29udmVy
> ......
> 
> I would need to specify the file name some place too.  I will look at a 
> mail with mime attachment.

That's what I'd do.

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> I will provide more info later this week.

Okay.

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> >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'd use netcat. Telnet is very hard to script with. Slow, too.
Basic authentication is simple enough. I don't know how to do
any of the fancier, 'secure', kinds, like TLS/SSL. That would be
_possible_, though.

There's a utility called 'starttls', and 'openssl'. I'm just not
familiar with them.

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Lee

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