On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 18:34:59 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote:

> On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 15:33:01 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:

>> On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 19:13:10 +00, Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ wrote:

>>> Hi Samuel,
>>> Are you sure Arachne did not decode the attachment?
>>> It may not have been written to a file yet... but it is written to the
>>> cache already, decoded.

>>> CU, Bastiaan

>> Yes, I am sure.  Executable programs sent as MIME-encoded email
>> attachments and received by Arachne's email client do not get
>> automagically decoded and written to cache unless one clicks on
>> the attachment ikon.

> Sorry to contradict you, but....
> You are mistaken in that assumption.

> The attachment is "dettached" and written into the cache directory
> As so as we view the .CNM, .TBS .SNT or .MES itself.

> Have a look at the text along with that "icon" for the attachment.

>> From the bottom of the viewed .TBS I just now saved into my outbox
> to-which I attached djpeg32.exe

> File "\arachne\cache\djpeg32.exe" written.

> I have not as-yet "clicked" on the attachment icon.

> -- dir listing of my cache ---
> Volume in drive L is MS-RAMDRIVE
> Directory of  L:\ARACHNE\CACHE

> ..            <DIR>     3-31-03  6:11p
> ...           <DIR>     3-31-03  6:11p
> HEADERS      <DIR>     3-31-03  6:11p
> 49153631 HTM     3306  3-31-03  6:33p
> DJPEG32  EXE   110745  3-31-03  6:33p
>    5 File(s)  56659968 bytes free
> ______________________________

>>> On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 23:55:55 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:

<snip>

In my Arachne the attachment gets written already decoded to a
temporary directory which I have designated as "C:\TEMP\ARACHNE.TMP"
It does not get written to my cache directory "D:\ARACHNE\CACHE"

Sam Heywood
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