On Sun, 20 Feb 2000 16:09:58 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Feb 2000 13:51:36 -0500, Roger Turk wrote:
>> Sam Heywood,
>> Here is how your "attached file, FILE_ID.DIZ is an ascii text file" came thru:
>> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
>> P.S. BTW, the attached file, FILE_ID.DIZ is an ascii text file which
>> describes the program in Herr Muchsel's own words.
>> <snip>
> <snipped again>
>> The question is, why did an ASCII text file get encoded into a "base64"
>> encoded format?
> Roger,
> Because it didn't have the .txt file extension.
> IIRC, Arachne decides what to do based upon the file extension.
> (.TXT will not be encoded, .DIZ will be encoded)
> --
<snip>
> [Attached file: file_id.txt] (File "file_id.txt" (type TEXT/PLAIN, size 0 KB))
> [Attached file: file_id.diz] (File "file_id.diz" (type application/octet-stream,
>size 0 KB))
At my end, I retrieved Glenn's message with both of the above files
represented by ikons. By clicking on either one of them, they would
display as normal text files.
I remember back a couple of years ago I used Arachne to send a JPG image
file as an attachment to an email message having my brother and my two
sisters named as multiple recipients. One of my sisters uses a Mac, the
other uses a Windows 95 machine. They received the attachment represented
as an ikon, and they clicked on it, and voil�, the image was displayed. My
brother has also a Windows 95 machine, but he uses an email program that is
different from that used by my sister. He received the attachment as
though it were an encoded appended file. No ikon.
Here is another interesting observation about attachments and another DOS
email program:
I can send a UUENCODED binary file with NetTamer. If the recipient has
a Windows CE device, or if he has Windows 95, then he will receive the
file represented as an ikon, and he can open it simply by clicking on it.
I don't know what would happen if I were to use NetTamer to send a
UUENCODED file to an Arachne user. It would be an interesting
experiment. In using NetTamer to send binary files, the outgoing message
always appears as an appended encoded file. No ikon. Somewhere along the
transmission and retrieval process the file becomes represented as an ikon.
It is all a great mystery to me how this all happens, but somehow the system
does work.
Sam Heywood
-- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client
