On Mon, 18 Sep 2000 09:43:19 -0500, David Aldridge wrote:
>SMTP is not an efficient to move binary files. They are converted into
>ASCII form while enroute and grow several times their original size as a
>result.
IIRC, "several times their original size" is 4/3. 3 binary bytes are
translated into 4 printable ASCII bytes using base 64 encoding. A
simple-minded approach would split every 3 bytes (24 bits) into 4
64-bit values and then add 32 to each to make it printable ASCII.
Ken
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