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chin@ankh.ankh.ftl.fl.us (Albert Chin) (08/04/90)

How do you receive a binary file from the mailserv@ymir.claremont.edu. I have
sent the message with the line "help" but the help file gives very little
information.

albert chin ... mthvax!mamia!albert

dhosek@sif.claremont.edu (Hosek, Donald A.) (08/07/90)

In article <CHIN.90Aug4032328@ankh.ankh.ftl.fl.us>, chin@ankh.ankh.ftl.fl.us (Albert Chin) writes...
>How do you receive a binary file from the mailserv@ymir.claremont.edu. I have
>sent the message with the line "help" but the help file gives very little
>information.

There is no mechanism for receiving binary files from mailserv at
this time. There is currently a new internet standard being
developed for transfer of binary files as text and when that is
completed, it will be supported by mailserv. The author of
mailserv (who is a local) has no desire to support any other
exchange formats, unfortunately.

-dh

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