Messages in this thread | | | From | "Albert D. Cahalan" <> | Subject | Re: Binary files in the kernel sources? | Date | Tue, 22 Aug 2000 16:20:48 -0400 (EDT) |
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Matthias Andree writes: > On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Brian Gerst wrote:
>> Diff and patch can't handle binary files. > > True. > > Still, for uuencoding, there are far too many implementations of > uuencode around (with/out checksum, with/out boundary, using blanks > (0x20) or backticks (0x60)), and finally, uuencode is trashed when > quoted-printable encoded. > > These considerations are overcome by MIME which is well-defined. Wrong > implementations of a well-defined standard may not be excused, flaky > implementations of a not-so-well "standard" are to be avoided.
You have that backwards. The uuencode command, including the algorithm, is defined by The Single UNIX Specification, Version 2. MIME is not a UNIX requirement; the standard does not contain even a single mention of "MIME" or "mime".
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