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Christian Taube <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 27 May 1992 16:04:00 PDT
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>>    I read somewhere, sometime that WordPerfect can be saved in a 7-bit
>>    format that will allow it to travel over BITNET/Internet and preserve
>>    all of its control codes (i.e., underlining, footnotes, etc.).  I
>>    haven't had a chance to fiddle with this myself, so I was wondering if
>>    anyone else had--and with what success.
>
>Why not try compressing it? Zip and StuffIt files can both be sent over
>the net as binary data, which bypasses the various nasties which can
>corrupt the document. Although it won't be quite as easy as straight
>mail, it _will_ get the file there intact, and with the added plus of
>being compressed to save bandwith.
 
For that matter, why not all switch to a REAL system--i.e. anything
that is not VAX-related :-)--and use compress and uudecode, so that
anybody on any system--even those remaining with a VAX :-)--will be able
to receive files that contain binary data and unpack them for them-
selves.  (BTW, stuffing a document in whichever way will lead, to my
understanding, to no more saving of bandwidth, because that is already
being achieved by the various compress/archive programs.)  Not every-
body _is_ able to receive binary data just like that, and a lot of the
networking that's going on is elitist and exclusive enough as it is.
 
Jeremy, I can't quite imagne how anybody is going to use seven bits
and still get all control characters right.  However, I will gladly
be proven the contrary.  This sounds interesting.
 
We now return you to your regularly scheduled screen talk.
 
Christian.
--
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