On Thu, 5 Sep 91 18:00:41 PDT, Neil Katin wrote:
For example, Text-Plus/FrameMaker format is a binary format,
is not human readable, and would most reasonably be encoded in
Binary.
There is no such format. The correct format name is almost certainly
something like Image/FrameMaker.
Just because an image contains text does not make it a text or text-plus
format.
Another example would be several draw packages, that save a more/draw
metafile format in ascii, and therefore would be of type image but
transport encoding 7 bit.
Do those draw packages write ASCII files that conform to the specifications
and limitations of SMTP? 7BIT transport encoding has line length and newline
rules.
"binary"
If you had a machine
readable type that was coded to fit within the definition of 7bit
or 8 bit then those silly states go back to OK. An example of this
would be the compression algorithm that was proposed earlier to
this list.
No, no, no! 7BIT and 8BIT are subject to the line length and newline rules of
SMTP.