Lisa, I can't answer your question exactly right now, but I can give you a guess based on my experience. I hope this helps in some way. Tomorrow I'll ask a programmer about that particular format and get back to you with what he says. Now about my experience. Last Christmas my sister gave me a cooking thing, and I didn't know what it was. I asked her if she could scan in the manual for that machine and send it to me. Well, it took her a while, but she finally called, said she had gotten a copy of the manual and recipee books from her son for that machine. She scanned it for me and sent the email. I had told her I wanted a text file. Well, the message came. It said it was too long, so I hit return on it, but the system just kept beeping and beeping. I finally checked the status of the download and found out that according to the system, the message length was five million bytes. Well, I had enough space and tried to download it. Once the email session was finished, there ! was always one message missing. I bet you know which one. For example if the system told me I had 37 messages at the outset, I would only get 36. That was after waiting through Voice Note's attemt to download that message. One thing was certain. I had to get rid of that sucker or spend a lot of time downloading email. It wasn't going to go away on its own. I was up late. Around 3:00 a.m. I managed to play around and erase that message. Still I was puzzled. Why after all that effort couldn't Voice note get it? I asked the programmer friend about it, described Voice Note, etc. He said, "Now since you took some programming courses, what do you remember about ascii?"
I said, that in the beginning of the programming course, the instructor said that at its very basic level Ascii is an eight bit system. To talk about it intelligently, you have eight positions at the basic level with either current on or off. The off current stuff is represented by a zero. On current is one. That suggests base two. Do you remember your arithmetic and how to convert to base two? Well, in any case, each letter of the alphabet and other symbols have an assigned ascii value. Let's say a certain caracter has the value of 16. That's base ten, the system we normally use. I think that value might be 00001000in base two. Okay, so then there's a translator program that tells your computer what to print or show or speak. Hey, guys, those of us just using voice may not hear the zeros I put before, but Lisa will see it. She'll probably check my math, too. (grin.). Okay, Okay, that's a representation of the circuits, remember? Okay, so back to my incident. My sister scanned a lot of stuff. To her it appeared to be text. The problem was it wasn't ascii. It was a picture of the print, and that's not ascii. I suspect that, that is what this format you mentioned is all about. Was anyone being mean? No, that person just saw text on the screen and sent it. The problem is our systems don't do well with pictures. That's what I think those messages were. There's no text in pictures. If I'm wrong, someone will tell us. But there it is. Thank goodness our systems don't download pictures. Brenda Mueller > ----- Original Message ----- >From: Lisa Ehlers <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To:[email protected] >Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 21:25:22 +1000 >Subject: [Braillenote] error message gone but still curious >Hello Listers, >I called EARTHLINK and had the tech support person delete my emails. I'm >still curious what that error decoding email no mime boundary found means. >It's not that big of a deal because I could still download email but it was >clear that if I didn't get that email off the server it was ne going to >download on its own. What is interesting is the person who had written the >"weird" email had an Earthlink email address. Usually I receive emails from >other people who have Earthlink email addresses just fine but it makes me >wonder. I don't have any spam blocker set up with Earthlink because some >emails like PIN numbers for stuff wouldn't come through if spam blocker was >turned on. How did the BN know to reject this email? Why did it reject it? >The whole thing is just perplexing. >Thanks for any ideas! >Lisa >___ >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
