I'm assuming that Paul meant to send this to the list... I have to add, though, that I was just thinking that *his* was an excellent suggestion... --Bob -- ============================================================ Bob Drzyzgula It's not a problem bob@drzyzgula.org until something bad happens ============================================================ http://www.drzyzgula.org/bob/electronics/ ============================================================ Return-Path: Received: from localhost (bob@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nexus.drzyzgula.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA04811 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 18:21:09 -0400 Received: from mail.eskimo.com by fetchmail-4.5.8 POP3 for (multi-drop); Mon, 06 Sep 1999 18:21:10 EDT Received: from siobhan.clinipath.com.au (root@siobhan.clinipath.com.au [203.29.1 16.11]) by mx1.eskimo.com (8.9.1a/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA11417 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 15:19:03 -0700 Received: from midcoast.com.au (cove.clinipath.com.au [203.29.116.16]) by siobhan.clinipath.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA12196 for ; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 08:19:00 +1000 Message-ID: <37D43DC8.1023F6D7@midcoast.com.au> Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 08:18:48 +1000 From: "Paul B. Webster VK2BZC" Reply-To: paulb@midcoast.com.au Organization: Webster Medical Pty. Ltd. http://www.midcoast.com.au/~paulb/ X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bob Drzyzgula Subject: Re: Binary to ASCII References: <3.0.32.19990905122919.0069e7c4@popd.ix.netcom.com> <006001bef8ae$c1595e10$8a078cd4@armari> <19990906180358.A343 1@nexus.drzyzgula.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-UIDL: 4842f5e621c008f06161f197a05b73e9 Bob Drzyzgula wrote: > Extra garbage will be included to make the character count a > multiple of 4. The body is terminated by a line with a count of zero. > This line consists of one ASCII space. NOT germaine to the topic in hand, but one little problem with UUEncode in messages and cutting and pasting is that it may contain trailing blanks which many text editors strip, including that terminator line. For the matter at hand though, an excellent suggestion. It *is* easy to implement. I would suggest a final printable non-blank framing character for the above reason. Generates printable, if meaningless data which you can store in text files. And then there's Kermit too... -- Cheers, Paul B.