Re: [WinMac] Cross-platform email

Leonard Rosenthol(leonardr[at]Adobe.COM)
Fri, 18 Dec 1998 12:34:34 -0500

At 11:33 AM -0500 12/18/98, Blake Lange wrote:
> It is my understanding that Base64 encoding did not retain the resource
> fork. In order to retain the resource fork Apple Double is better because
> it creates two files, one of the resource fork and one of the data fork
> which is equivalent to the Base64 file.
>
        You're mixing your encodings :(.

        The way that MIME works (or more specifically in this case,
the Mac extensions to MIME) is that the file is first AppleSingle or
AppleDoubled (the latter is preferred) and THEN Base64 encoded.

Leonard
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