schultz@halley.est.3m.com (John C. Schultz) (05/24/91)
I am looking for any suggestions people have about e-mailing binary files from/to UNIX (sun, hp, dec, etc.). uuencode/decode is not an acceptable solution. I wonder if something like a e-mail front-end for ftp is available? I would appreciate any suggestions, and can summarize if there is any interest. My apologies if this is a Frequently Asked Question since I just started reading this group. Thanks. -- John C. Schultz EMAIL: schultz@halley.serc.3m.com 3M Company, Building 518-01-1 WRK: +1 (612) 733-4047 1865 Woodlane Drive, Dock 4, Woodbury, MN 55125 How to include the taste of Glendronach in a multi-media system?
davidg%aegis.or.jp@kyoto-u.ac.jp (Dave McLane) (05/26/91)
schultz@halley.est.3m.com (John C. Schultz) writes: > I am looking for any suggestions people have about e-mailing binary > files from/to UNIX (sun, hp, dec, etc.). I have been running a DOS-based BBS (which I wrote) for about 5 years which has binary mail. Now I've changed over to a DOS-based system (WAFFLE) that links to USENET, etc. but hasn't binary mail so I keep the old system running for those who use it. I'm in the middle of moving on to UNIX and binary mail will implement binary mail so I can do away with the other two systems. For mail between two users on the local system, I will use a sh script that will let people put mail in their home directory with sx, sy, sz or, as an option, put it in somebody elses's home directory. For mail between somebody on the local system and a remote system, the script will uuencode it and send it as mail. Not very complicated, except that I have to write a program to get the BBS's (binary) password list into a form I could use in a script. > > uuencode/decode is not an acceptable solution. I'm not quite sure what you mean by this. If you are going to send the information over the network, it *has* to be put into 7-bit printable ASCII as some links don't accept->forward 8 bits. However, you may mean that you don't want the people on the receiving end to have to fiddle about with uudecoding the mail. As far as I know, there is nothing one can do about this but install something on the receiving end that will do the job, which means you need the cooperation of the sysadm on the receiving machine. My idea for a UNIX-based receiving machine is to have a b-mailer-daemon that receives the mail, uudecodes it, and puts it in the appropriate place. No clear idea on how to do a DOS-based receiving machine except to modify whatever receives it.... I've been thinking about this for a long time as many of the people use my system to send Japanese in 8-bit SHIFT-JIS. Once you can do that, it's that all that difficult to change the format so what gets sent is a file, instead of something with headers and then the body. Cheers! Dave -- Dave McLane <davidg%aegis.or.jp> JUNET <davidg%aegis.or.kyoto-u.ac.jp> INTERNET <davidg%aegis.or.jp@jpnkyoto.kyoto-u.ac.jp> BITNET <davidg%aegis.or.jp%kyoto-u.ac.jp@uunet.uu.net> UUNET ==== The Aegis Society ============================================= Minami Hirao 1-6, Imazato The content and process of Nagaokakyo-shi, Kyoto-fu, 617 Japan international/cultural Tel: +81-75-951-1168 Fax: +81-75-957-1087 communication. ====================================================================