Excerpt from "Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Until a year ago they made FTP possible and FTP is much faster, no bload
> at all... and files are smaller. HTTP is a 7 bit system so files, eg
> images, must be encoded by the sender and decoded by the provider. Is
> MIME the en/decoder; 8 bit => 7 bit ??
> Like attachments becomming larger than the original files.

HTTP is only 7 bits?  I have downloaded a lot of .zip files, also other binary
types via http, and I didn't see any MIME-style encoding.

FTP07 is a standalone FTP program for DOS, dating to 1993 but still good,
however no support for resuming interrupted downloads or uploads.

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