From: nowhere@never.at   
      
   Mike Gonta started the story which we (Kerr and me) took on:   
      
   I remember Herbert Kleebauer once show us a way to transfer binaries   
   by text-only (sorry for I don't remember the details).   
      
   but now we seem to be restricted to Terje's demand which disallow   
   quote-marks and characters outside of the Base64 defined range.   
      
   Why ? All standard internet protocols can use 0x20..0x7e and also   
   allow (by 8bit ASCII extension) all local chars required from 0x80..   
      
   So our current 209 Byte decode + Hello World can be reduced by many   
   bytes if we ignore this restrictions and just use what all standard   
   gateways will support.   
      
   Perhaps I'm ignorant on it, but where would you see a problem to   
   have quote-marks 0x22, 0x27 and characters 0x5b..0x60, 0x7b..0x7e   
   in a text-string to send or receive ?   
   I'm aware of stripped-off trailing spaces and reflown CRLF.   
      
   Thanks for any light on the matter.   
   __   
   wolfgang   
      
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