Glenn, L.D., and Sam Heywood,

I will typically receive attachments, regardless of whether they are ASCII 
text, HTML or BINARY, as a separate file.  In fact, Sam Heywood's post was 
the first message that I ever received that had the attachment included as 
part of the message.  Because it was part of the message, I assumed that Sam 
had copied and pasted the text file into the message and was perplexed how 
that action could have caused the file to be encoded.

Roger Turk
Tucson, Arizona  USA

Glenn McCorkle wrote:

>> 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)

--
Glenn McCorkle [EMAIL PROTECTED] North Jackson, Ohio, USA
DOS prog. for QV cameras http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/qvplay.html
Other stuff http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
            Arachne, The Web Browser for DOS
   Open the 'DOOR' to the WWW. Keep the 'windows' closed.
      http://arachne.browser.org/ http://arachne.cz/

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Topic:  File "file_id.txt" (type TEXT/PLAIN, size 0 KB)
Format: ASCII
Name:   file_id.txt

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Topic:  File "file_id.diz" (type application/octet-stream, size 0 KB)
Format: BINARY
Name:   file_id.diz

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L.D. Best wrote:

>>Don't blame Sam.

His attachment on my e-mail came through the way it was supposed to.
But on mail from my oldest son, yesterday, I got the same type of "I
ain't gonna convert this so take a look" treatment from Arachne.

NOW what??!!

And, to answer Roger's question -- Arachne had no way of knowing that
DIZ is a text file!  So it was encoded.

Glenn, or ???  Where do we add a line designating *.DIZ as text??<<

Sam Heywood wrote:

>>Very good question.  I took a look at this message before I sent it.
While it was still in my outbox, I clicked on the ikon representing
the attachment, and it opened and displayed just like any other text
attachment.<<

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