Encoding and compression are not the same thing. Regardless of whether compressed, all attachments sent from emailer, via the internet, must be encoded.
Binhex works well for Mac recipients (and for windows receipients who have unsuffit, or some other binhex utility--I think that WinZIP includes it these days), and base 64 works well for files that do not have resource forks (or if it doesn't matter if the resource forks don't go through). Apple Double works well, but non-Mac recipients will receive two files--one with the data fork, and one with the resource fork. Apple Single works pretty much the same way as base 64 does. uuencode is just about dead, from what I can tell; it was included for legacy purposes. I hope that's enough information for you to be able to decide. --Michelle On Monday, September 23, 2002, at 11:19 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In Setup/ Internet/ Accounts/ Options I am forced to choose a default > encoding from binhex, base 64, unencode, apple single or apple double. > Recipients of my emails are having problems with binhex so I'm > resorting > to sending attachments via aol which doesn't force me to choose an > encoding method. Are any of the other choices more universally accepted > or is there a way to disable the encoding and do my own compression > with > dropzip or dropstuff? We're not human beings having a spiritual experience. We're spiritual beings having a human experience. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
