>I'm used to getting more than one attachment to mail from certain
>people. The only times in the past where I had problems with InSight
>failing to show all of them would be if I was short on memory or cache
>was choked, etc.
>
>But in the last two days I've rec'd not only the message I wrote about
>before [total lockup with InSight version in 1.69] giving me problems,
>but also multiple jpg attachments of moderate size.
>
>More precisely, the 1st attachment is recognized as encoded graphic and
>is rendered as graphic to screen, but the second attachment isn't
>rendered -- it isn't even recognized by InSight as being an encoded
>graphic but is instead displayed as a text message.
>
>The fact that both messages were from my son in California has a
>tendency to pixx me off beyond normal levels, but I have -- so far --
>refrained from shouting too loudly.
>
>l.d.
I remember having problems viewing messages with many attachments with Arachne,
but that was a long time ago. Past a certain point, Arachne couldn't process
the image at all, but Arachne didn't lock up. Arachne was never able to view
images integrated with a document, like a Web page, but only separately. There
were also some attachments, such as .cbv (Chessbase: http://www.chessbase.com),
that no Internet software, even MSIE, could handle on its own.
That was in the good (?) old days, when Arachne was still able to view .MES
files offline, where now I get Load Error, and that pixxes me off.
Maybe your son in California could FTP-upload to a Web space, give you the URL,
and you could then download without the need for base64 encoding? Base64
encoding multiplies file size by 4/3, since four bytes take the place of three.
