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My last major project at CMU was the Cyrus Mail project, to build an IMAP-based, scalable mail system.
Primary author of Mpack and Munpack, utilities for encoding and decoding (respectively) binary files in MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) format mail messages. In short, munpack is the MIME equivalent of uudecode/binhex. Versions are available for unix, pc, os2, mac, amiga and archimedes systems. The canonical FTP site for this software is ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/mpack/
Twenty-eight miles from Elk Summit to the mouth of Blodgett Canyon plus a few more miles to Hamilton is not outstanding distance, just as distance, but still it is a damn tough walk. For one thing, those were Forest Service miles, and, in case you aren't familiar with a ``Forest Service mile,'' I'll give you a modern well-marked example. Our family cabin is near the Mission Glaciers and naturally one of the many nearby lakes is named Glacier Lake, which is at the end of Kraft Creek Road, except that the final pitch is so steep you have to make it on foot. Where the trail starts there is a Forest Service sign reading: ``Glacier Lake--1 Mi.'' Then you climb quite a way on the trail toward Glacier Lake and you come to another Forest Service sign reading: ``Glacier Lake--1.2 Mi.'' So a good working definition of a ``Forest Service mile'' is quite a way plus a mile and two tenths, and I was going to walk over thirty Forest Service miles to Hamilton, about half of them up until I was above mountain goats and the other half down and down until my legs would beg to start climbing again and I wouldn't be able to comply. The trail was full of granite boulders, and I would manage somehow so that Bill would hear that I had walked it in a day.