RFC 2160 (rfc2160) - Page 2 of 5
Carrying PostScript in X
Alternative Format: Original Text Document
RFC 2160 Carrying PostScript in X.400 and MIME January 1998
2. The PostScript body part
Carrying PostScript in X.400 as an Extended Body Part was originally
defined in RFC 1494. This specification carries that work forward
now that RFC 1494 is obsoleted by [BODYMAP].
The following Extended Body Part is defined for PostScript data
streams. It has no parameters.
postscript-body-part EXTENDED-BODY-PART-TYPE
DATA OCTET STRING
::= mime-postscript-body
mime-postscript-body OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::=
{ mixer-bp-data 2 }
3. The PostScript FTBP
The PostScript FTBP is identified by having the
FileTransferParameters.environment.application-reference set to id-
mime-ftbp-postscript.
The definition is:
id-mime-ftbp-postscript OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::=
{ mixer-bp-data 6 }
4. The Application/PostScript content-type
In MIME, PostScript is carried in the body part
"application/PostScript", which is defined in RFC 1521.
5. MIXER conversion
X.400 Body Part: Extended Body Part, OID mime-postscript-body MIME
Content-Type: application/postscript Conversion Type: No conversion
The two representations of PostScript both contain a single stream of
octets. This stream of octets can be copied with no problems between
the representations. No other data needs to be converted.
6. MIXER conversion
X.400 Body Part: FTBP, OID mime-ftbp-postscript-body MIME Content-
Type: application/postscript Conversion Type: No conversion
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