Re: FTPClient Beta Released - Please test
Re: FTPClient Beta Released - Please test
- Subject: Re: FTPClient Beta Released - Please test
- From: Andrew Pinski <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 21:35:03 -0400
On Saturday, August 10, 2002, at 09:12 , Gregory Weston wrote:
On 8/10/02 at 1:24 AM, Scott Anguish <email@hidden> wrote:
On Friday, August 9, 2002, at 04:24 PM, David Rehring wrote:
-most users know what .sit/.hqx files are [that they are somehow
'packaged' versions of actual file]. '.gz' is a relatively unknown
extension in the Mac experience
then they need to learn. hqx is an abomination that should have
disappeared 5 years ago around the time that uuencoding did.
It didn't? I honestly can't recall the last time I saw an HQX
file. I'm quite
used to seeing unadorned .sit. Heck, even my very Mac OS mail
program doesn't
default to HQX (although it does offer it) for attachments.
The only time HQX is nessesary is when you are sending the file over a
7bit pipe which there are very few any more.
This is just like uuencode under UNIX.
Back in the old days when the Internet was young, there where
places where you could only send mail over 7bit pipes
(mostly over the phone) so you had to change binary files into
7bit files and that is why HQX and uuencode came about
(and in DOS there was quotable text).
All of these are still being used today because people hate change.
Thanks,
Andrew Pinski
G
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