> One of the "building blocks" added to the next version of LISTSERV is an > internal command called X-B64 which a future version could use to pass > binary DISTRIBUTE jobs over mail gateways. Before you ask, I haven't got Is the output of this program compatible with the base64 encoding used in the MIME multimedia extensions package for Internet mail? If not, I'd suggest taking a look at it -- MIME is becoming more and more popular, and the base64 encoding type is flexible enough to be a very useful tool without inventing Yet Another File Encoding Program. As a futures thing, is LISTSERV support for MIME in the works? It'd really be neat to have the ability to have my mail reader be able to receive files and text messages in the same message and not have to worry about figuring out what utility I need to receive/decode/assemble various kinds of files. From a trivial look at what would be required, the list of headers passed through the header filter for short headers would have to be expanded to pass the X-MIME-Version header and the loop detector code would probably have to be able to ignore MIME element headers in the body of the message. One of the PIPES-phreaks here has written a replacement for SENDFILE that employs MIME to encapsulate files that might be interesting to look at. We've successfully used it to move some pretty large text files around -- it might be an interesting base to work from.