On Sun, 20 Oct 2002 08:17:01 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Zentara)
wrote:

>Can someone please point out where my reasoning is flawed
>concerning base64 encoding.
>
>A question recently came up in the Tk newsgroup on how to
>display a jpg image with Tk, directly from a url.
>
>I could easily do it if I mirrored a temporary jpg file on the local
>harddrive, then displayed it; but to do it by displaying what is in
>memory alone, required MIME::Base64 encoding.

Nevermind, a Tk expert informed me that Tk still requires
data to be "printable characters", which seems to explain it.


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