From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: downing.nick@gmail.com (Nick Downing) Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 15:11:53 +1100 Subject: [TUHS] who invented the email attachment? In-Reply-To: References: <61ff3fb7-7b96-d129-6a02-a56059bfe991@mhorton.net> Message-ID: I can't speak to the original question since I was not around at the time, but uuencode is really cool. When I first saw it, probably in connexion with a BBS of some kind, I immediately went and wrote my own 6.5 bit encoder based on some number corresponding to the number of printable characters available which when squared gave a 13 bit number. Played around with this and gave it to a friend for fun to exchange messages in. But the original is obviously much more in use :) Nick On Mar 19, 2017 1:41 PM, "Dave Horsfall" wrote: > On Sat, 18 Mar 2017, Mary Ann Horton wrote: > > > 1. Originally, our files were all plain text and we just included them > in > > the email message body. The ~r command in Kurt Shoen's Mail program > was > > typical. There was no name for this, we were just emailing files. > > 1.5 They started to include in-line shell scripts, then we piped them > into the "unshar" utility, which did basic security checks. > > -- > Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will > suffer." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: