>I've sent Peter(?) my collection -- around 150 -- in a stuffed text file. >Snitch says it's 8K on the hard drive... dunno what the file size was >when [EMAIL PROTECTED] finished encoding it. (Sure wish there was some way to turn >that off!)
You can, choose "No Encoding" from the popup list for Encoding type. However, I think you'll be disappointed with the results. The only attachments you can send with No Encoding are plain ASCII text files. Everything else has to be encoded. This isn't Emailer's fault, this is the whole email protocol's fault. Email is a plain text protocol. In other words, all you can transfer via email, is characters you can type on a normal keyboard. Most files are binary, and contain data that can't be typed. For those that care about the "technical jargon" the idea is email is 7 bit ascii, and most files are 8 bit binary. Encoding a file converts the non typable characters into ones that are typable, and so can be send via email. ie: It takes the 8 bit binary file, and converts it into 7 bit ascii. You can actually look at the results if you use an external encoder (like Stuffit's encode features). If you open an encoded file in a text editor, you will see the jibberish code. Its nothing more then long strings of seemingly random characters. So if you turn off encoding (choose No Encoding), the email protocol will not be able to handle the file attachment. So Emailer will not let you do that for a file that is 8 bit. It will let you do it with a plain ASCII text file, because that can be attached without modification. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
