file xfer

[Raye Raskin]

I'm just a little curious.  Why do I keep seeing references
to pkzip?  Why not use just plain zip?  Isn't it just a tad
more portable?  Isn't that what we'd want?  And there are
no license issues that I know of.

Do a search on zip and/or unzip and you should find them.

My $.02

> Does anyone know where to find mime64 and pkzip libraries? I think the MIME
> suggestion is brilliant. This is just the kind of application that MIME
> designed for, i.e. packaging up arbitrary data for the purpose of passing it
> between different platforms in a portable/transportable TEXT form. I would
> have chosen .tgz format over pkzip but they are effectively equivalent and
> who cares if it is hidden from the user. Neithor is good enough for the Mac.
> Mac users wwould have to be satisfied with moving hqx files as single files.
> Another nice thing about MIME is that it is extensible. We can enhance as
> needed.
> 
> I suggest that a prototype start with the MIME encapsulation of a single
> file which can be eithor binary or TEXT. That lets us handle platform
> translation of CR/LF. Let the user zip and unzip it in the beginning. This
> defers such user interface questions as where in the tree to do the extract.
> 
>  > -----Original Message-----
>  > From: throopw "at" sheol.org [mailto:throopw "at" sheol.org]
>  > Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 5:10 PM
>  > To: vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com
>  > Cc: throopw "at" sheol.org
>  > Subject: Re: file xfer
>  >
>  >
>  > : Grant McDorman <grant.mcdorman "at" cedara.com>
>  > : If we decide on a way of handling the "line end" in
>  > binary, I can put
>  > : together an X application to handle it.
>  >
>  > I would suggest using pkzip format to handle multiple files
>  > (and compression), and MIME encapsulation to describe the
>  > content format and provide a binary encoding format.
>  >
>  > Indeed, MIME would allow the sender to tell any recipients
>  > what kind of lump they are getting, allowing for different
>  > encoding formats; I'd still suggest pkzip with compression
>  > and MIME base64 encoding as the defaults.
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