bug in snapshot 19990629

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jul  8, 1999, craig@jcb-sc.com wrote:

>> gzip, bzip2, compress or pkzip, then include the compressed CPP output
>> as an attachment to your message.

> I think the term "attachment" is the problem there.  I don't believe
> the authors intended that in the MIME sense.

I'm not 100% I was the one who wrote that passage, but MIME is
certainly the best option to send compressed data nowadays.  The
alternative is uuencode, which is not as handy, neither for the bug
reporter nor for me.

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