Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/09/06/05:50:07
"A. Sinan Unur" (asu1 AT cornell DOT edu) writes:
> Paul Derbyshire wrote:
>>
>> > // xIGOO
>> > begin 600 stack_t.c
>> > M(VEN8VQU9&4@/'-T9&EO+F@^#0H-"B-D969I;F4 AT 34%87TQ%3 AT DQ,# P#0HC
>> > M9&5F:6YE($5-4%19"2TQ#0HC9&5F:6YE($953$P)*$U!6%],14X@+2 Q*0T*
>>
>> etc. etc. etc.
>>
>> UUencoded text??? take it to alt.binaries.die.die.die. Or post it as
>> text. Not everyone here can decode this cruft, and those that can't,
>> therefore can't help you.
>
> i do not know any newsreader/e-mail program that cannot deal with
> UUencode. since it was just short source code, he should have included
> in the body of the text.
Well, now you do. Mine can't. :-) It shows up as a screenful of gibberish.
The thing is, I don't use a DOS/MAC/Windoze newsreader I use a unix one on
a shell-ish account. Text only. No windows, no attachments, no funky
Netscape stuff, no HTML, no encoded crud. Just plain text, what Usenet was
meant to be.
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Paul Derbyshire ao950 AT freenet DOT carleton DOT ca, http://chat.carleton.ca/~pderbysh
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