Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 26 Jul 1999 16:59:56 +0100 (GMT) | | From | Tim Ricketts <> | | Subject | Re: New virtual in-memory file system |
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On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Riley Williams wrote:
> Hi Steve. > > > [uuencoded tarball] > > >> ===8<=== CUT ===>8=== > >>> M%YN(W#<*N>\LU22\?(GC-*PX+:/[CGA._6&.>4T>]1#&PA<AIG0I@)5?-8V< > >>> =M=]<7^MK?:VO];6^UM?Z6E]_Y/4O"<%%3@!0```` > >>> ` > >>> end > >>> --cut here-->8-------------- > > >> Obvious comment: What's all that junk for? I would presume it's some > >> sort of encrypted version of your file system, but I've no means of > >> handling it so can't do anything with it... > > > You're kidding, aren't you? > > Nope. I originally assumed it was uuencoded, but uudecode says > otherwise...
Works here.
> Also, what's the point of using uuencode nowadays? All it does is > bloat the filesize unnecessarily, thus increasing the download costs > associated with it...
This sounded unlikely to me, so I sent two messages to myself. The first contained virtfs.tar.gz uuencoded + my .sig. The second had a message containing only my .sig with virtfs.tar.gz as a MIME attachment.
condor:~/mail/main$ ls -l test? -rw------- 1 tr tr 6365 Jul 26 16:46 test1 -rw------- 1 tr tr 6912 Jul 26 16:45 test2 condor:~/mail/main$ i.e. on small files like this one, MIME produces larger mails than uuencode.
-- Tim Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
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