Re: Apache GII-Awards entry...

[Randy Terbush <ra...@zyzzyva.com>]

> On Thu, 2 May 1996, Rob Hartill wrote:
> > > Damn, what is all this BASE64 stuff and how do I get elm to do
> > > anything other than throw it away?
> > 
> > It's what Mac lusers seem to think the rest of the planet will have
> > no problem unpacking.
> 
> Actually it's pine creating that... I guess it presumes it's possible 
> it'll have 8-bit characters and feels the need to encode it thusly... and 
> pine doesn't appear to give me any options to control that, urg.
> 
> "binhex" is what mac users think the rest of the world can deal with. :)
> 
> 	Brian

FWIW - With exmh and metamail installed, I didn't even notice that
it was encoded.