Hello Kai, hello all,
On 26 Apr 2000, at 0:12, Kai Schulte wrote:
>
> On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Robert Schelander wrote:
>
> > Is there any stand-alone program available to create
> > ASCII from binarys to transfer them via ax25 mailboxes?
>
> Somebody (who doesn't know how to quote) replied:
>
> > How about uuencode?
Apparently YOU do not know how to quote the Microsoft way (TM).
According to their famous Internet rules widely accepted as a
standard, one has
1. to put his comments _always_ on top of the quoted text
2. to repeat the whole text that he answers to once again at the
bottom of the message.
Unfortunately, I do not know what this should be good for but I
believe Microsoft had very good and acceptable reasons for
introducing these standards.
Remember: It was Microsoft who invented the Internet and brought
it to the masses - and Earth is a disk.
> uuencode is good because it is a very widely used standard, but
> there is also 7plus, which was designed specifically for radio
> mailboxes - it uses the usual 7bit characters and some additional
> ones which are handled transparently by virtually all systems.
> It can also split files into smaller chunks which may be easier to
> handle as mail messages.
>
> Probably the best feature is its efficient correction mechanism -
> each line has a checksum, so the decoder can detect lines that were
> corrupted somewhere during transfer, and will automatically generate
> an error message containing corretion requests which can be mailed
> back to the sender, who can then run 7plus on it and automatically
> generate a "patch", i.e. a correction file, so that only the
> corrupted lines have to be retransmitted.
But here, I fully agree. 7PLUS should be available on ftp.funet.fi or
via a search on ftpsearch.lycos.com, too.
Cheers, 73
Gerd
