Sam Heywood wrote:
>>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,
I have sent UUencoded files as attachments to people and they arrived as
separate messages, still encoded. I made sure that the extension was .UUE so
that they could be identified as UUencoded files by the recipients e-mail
program. I also tried sending base64 encoded files (with extension .B64)
with the same results. Typically, the recipients didn't have the foggiest
idea of what to do with them.
Roger Turk
Tucson, Arizona USA
P.S. I just received *another* message (not from the list) that had a base64
encoded attachment enclosed as part of the message. This is only the second
message that I have received that way and it might be something that
Compuserve is doing. I will have to start watching another list service that
I subscribe to and see what happens there as most of those subscribers are
(shudder!) Windoze users and some don't have "attach HTML" shut off on their
e-mail programs.
