> It would be a good place to put control lines, and leave the
 > message area free to use any ascii characters. 

 AC> What is the advantage in doing that? When did you last need to
 AC> put an ASCII 0x01 as the first character of a paragraph in a
 AC> message? What if I want to put an ASCII 0x01 in the subject
 AC> line? :-) 

  The existing PKT format can't send graphics, except as uuencodes
in  6-bit instead of 8-bit, in order to remove control codes and
hi-ascii. This not only adds processing time to the sequence, but it
makes the uuencode 30% larger.

  Of course, we still have the problem of the nul terminator.

 AC> What if I want to put an ASCII 0x01 in the subject line?

  There is no reason why not, as long as whatever you put in there is
nul terminated.

Regards,
Bob
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