from Alejandro Lieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

>I am including this batch file as an attachment. It could be 
>interesting to anyone wanting to use several WATTCP programs, dialing 
>only once.
>
>In this computer, a 40 Mhz 386 with 8 Mb and an hercules yellow 
>monitor, for HTTM I use LYNX.
>
>You can change the word ARACHNE for LYNX in the batch file, as I do 
>in a 586 with SVGA in my office.
>
>
>
>
>
>--------------------------------------
>Alejandro Lieber  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Rosario  Argentina
>----------------------------------------Message-Boundary-1098
>Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
>Content-description: Information about this message.
>
>This message contains a file prepared for transmission using the
>MIME BASE64 transfer encoding scheme. If you are using Pegasus
>Mail or another MIME-compliant system, you should be able to extract
>it from within your mailer. If you cannot, please ask your system
>administrator for help.
>
>   ---- File information -----------
>     File:  LSPPP.BAT
>     Date:  24 Mar 2001, 8:47
>     Size:  3778 bytes.
>     Type:  Text
>
>--Message-Boundary-1098
>Content-type: Application/Octet-stream; name=LSPPP.BAT; type=Text
>Content-transfer-encoding: BASE64
>
>Ok1FTlUNCkBlY2hvIG9mZg0KY2xzDQplY2hvICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAg
>ICAgICAgIERPUyBJbnRlcm5ldCAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgIA0K
>ZWNobyCwsLCwsLCwsLCwsLCwsLCwsLCwsLCwsLCwsLCwsLCwsLCwsLCwsLCwsLCwsLCwsLCw
(snip)

Why do you do an attachment instead of copying the file inline, since it is a 
text file?  Base64 attachments on emailing lists are a nuisance and bad
netiquette.  A plain-text file does not need to be encoded.  Base64 takes 4/3
as many bytes as the non-encoded file.

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