On Sun, 20 Feb 2000 23:03:24 -0500, Roger Turk wrote:
> 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.
> 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, the representation as ikons occurs in the receivers' browser and is
dependant upon how the browser is programmed to behave upon recognizing
certain extensions. It is sometimes user programmable.
In Arachne that information would be in MIME.cfg and in Netscape it's
in "Helper Applications" I think they call it.
There is further descriptive information in the message header.
Look at the mail source and you might see stuff like:
"This is a 2 part message in mime format"
I think whether this information goes out in the header is controlled by
UseCID (Content ID) and UseCDescr (Content Description) in Arachne.cfg.
Exactly what each means is currently beyond me.
If I knew how to leave the compose window in Arachne without losing
what I've written to this point I'd quote something more relevant
to a non-text attachment. (Not feeling adventurous right now.) <g>
- Clarence Verge
- Using Arachne 1.50b2 for a change.
