Excerpts from mail: 30-Oct-91 Re: several comments on RFC.. Guido van
Rossum(_at_)cwi(_dot_)nl (2043)
I'd like to wire just enough support for archives into RFC-XXXX so that I
can be almost sure that if I send 100 files in 7 subdirectories as one
(nested) multipart/archive message, the recipient (using an RFC-XXXX
compatible UA) needn't issue 100 save commands or type in 100 file names,
nor escape from the UA to create the subdirectories -- otherwise it'd be
friendlier to use shar, which presumes UNIX and doesn't have transport
encodings.
I think this is already there, using the binary type, although it is a
UA decision whether or not there's a way for the user to avoid saying
"yes" 100 times. (In my current implementation, with your example, the
only problem is that the user has to say "yes" 100 times.)