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Message no. 1
From: Nightfox <DJWA@******.UCC.NAU.EDU>
Subject: The thing part 2
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1993 21:10:05 -0700
speaking of encryption - I thought it might be Rob's PGP
and that he had included the pgp instead of the file.\

Dan
Message no. 2
From: "Robert A. Hayden" <hayden@*******.MANKATO.MSUS.EDU>
Subject: Re: The thing part 2
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1993 23:27:24 -0500
On Mon, 25 Oct 1993, Nightfox wrote:

> speaking of encryption - I thought it might be Rob's PGP
> and that he had included the pgp instead of the file.\

BASE64 is related to uuencoding. MIME compatible mailers (such as Pine)
detect 8th bit control caharacter and encode it so that 7-bit machines
can much on it and not puke. As I said, mine detected it and decoded it
invisibly, so I had no idea.

As far as I understand, it works now.

____ Robert A. Hayden <=> hayden@*******.mankato.msus.edu
\ /__ -=-=-=-=- <=> -=-=-=-=-
\/ / Finger for Geek Code Info <=> Veteran of the Bermuda Triangle
\/ Finger for PGP 2.3a Public Key <=> Expeditionary Force -- 1993-1951
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
(GEEK CODE 1.0.1) GSS d- -p+(---) c++(++++) l++ u++ e+/* m++(*)@ s-/++
n-(---) h+(*) f+ g+ w++ t++ r++ y+(*)

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