On Friday, 29 August 2003, Jo Dorais, [EMAIL PROTECTED], thoughtfully composed the following:
>In the past 2-3 weeks, I've been getting the occasional attachment with >an extra '.b64' extension thrown on. Like 'filename.doc.b64' or >'filename.bmp.b64' --I can't open these. Well, ok, I can open them with a >text editor but they're just miles of garbage text. I'm assuming that b64 >would be the same as base64, which I would expect PowerMail to be able to >decode, but this doesn't seem to be the case. Is anyone else having this >trouble? the people sending me these files have no idea why they're >coming through like this. They aren't specifically doing anything to them >(however, they also are not big techno-types, so perhaps they did >something accidentally). I sent one of the files to a PC user friend who >IS fairly technically oriented and she couldn't open it either. > >Hints?? Have you tried dropping the file on Stuffit Expander? HTH, Marcus -- Marcus Jarrett Adelaide, South Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED]
