From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 16:39:29 +1100 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] attachments: MIME and uuencode In-Reply-To: <20170313012813.GN2685@mcvoy.com> References: <201703121813.v2CIDtRH099094@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> <20170313012813.GN2685@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: On Sun, 12 Mar 2017, Larry McVoy wrote: [...] > This actually caught some really bad behaviour on HP's part (this is all > ancient history so I doubt anyone cares). They sucked it into Word, > turned on track changes, made some minor changes, then turned off track > changes and made some major changes. If I had been trusting Word's > history we would not have noticed the major changes. But I didn't, I > caught them, when they were presented to HP they did the classic > "however did that happen, we have no idea, blah, blah, blah". Pretty > darn sleazy. A former boss of mine used to get quotes in Word all the time (we were a Unix house); he used to run "strings" against the document, and challenge the supplier with the fact that they were giving a competitor a better deal. To this day, "strings" is still my best Word decoder... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."