On 5 Feb 2008 10:00 -0600, by kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Kyle Wheeler): > The best way to send a DOS file, if it needs to *stay* a DOS file, is > to compress it (e.g. to zip it) and send the compressed form. When it > is decompressed, it will return to its original DOS form. This will obviously work. I was wondering though, if sent as an application/octet-stream MIME part, shouldn't the file be encoded by mutt in such a way that it can get reconstructed accurately on the receiver side? Yes, I know that calling plain text a/o-s is a borderline case, but sometimes compressing might not really be an option. (Say, if the recipient might want to read the attachment on a cell phone or PDA, which may not even be able to uncompress formats taken for granted on PCs.) -- Michael Kjörling .. michael@xxxxxxxxxxx .. http://michael.kjorling.se * ..... No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings ..... * * ENCRYPTED email preferred -- OpenPGP key ID: 0x(758F8749)BDE9ADA6 * * ASCII Ribbon Campaign: Against HTML mail, proprietary attachments *
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