On Sun, 20 Feb 2000 13:51:36 -0500, Roger Turk wrote:

> Sam Heywood,

> Here is how your "attached file, FILE_ID.DIZ is an ascii text file" came thru:

> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

> P.S. BTW, the attached file, FILE_ID.DIZ is an ascii text file which
> describes the program in Herr Muchsel's own words.

> <snip>

<snipped again>

> The question is, why did an ASCII text file get encoded into a "base64"
> encoded format?

 Roger,
Because it didn't have the .txt file extension.

IIRC, Arachne decides what to do based upon the file extension.
(.TXT will not be encoded, .DIZ will be encoded)

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File "file_id.diz" (type application/octet-stream, size 0 KB)

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