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From: rak@canon.co.uk (Richard Kirk)
Subject: Re: Apology to people who don't like my post.
Date: 1996/08/16
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tribe@io.com (WarDancer) writes:

>Something extra to consider is that the TCP/IP protocol is 7-bit.  If
>an 8-Bit file is posted it will be received garbled anyway.  Without
>the functionality of some form of encoding (such as MIME encoding) it
>is not possible for an 8-bit file to be carried over TCP/IP.  Programs
>such as Netscape/Agent/IE will do this transparently to the user but
>not all people have such luxuries available to them.

Even within the 7-bit protocol there are problems.  If you stick to the
range ' ' (space = 32) to '~' (tilde = 126) then you should be OK.  And you
will of course need some sort of line feed, but those are different on PC's,
Mac or UNIX, so just use what your editor gives you when you hit <return>.
Tabs will be transmitted OK, but will probably be interpreted differently 
by other terminals, so your lovely artwork will get messed.  If you have
non-ASCII funnies on your keyboard like Pound signs (a big hello to Mac users
everywhere!), then check the byte value.

>|               Free Nomadic People.               |

Great - I'll take a dozen!

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  b  ,B" _ S"b B.Bb .dBb .B dBBB.   B.aP"  _"B. JB.aPb   
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