On 13 6 2003 at 9:44 am -0400, Rick Lecoat wrote: >Well, I'm trying to avoid the recipient having to possess specific >decompression software to open the files, hence the self extracting >archive which, by necessity, is an application of sorts. But you're >right, there's a good chance that their server will bounce it so maybe I >should look at other options. Still, I'm curious to learn why Base64 is >not suitable for .exe files, f anyone knows.
Why not post the file to a web server? Not only will that be more efficient on the infrastructure (assuming it's more than a meg or something in size), but avoid the virus issue. Anyway, my suspicion is that your .exe does have a resource fork locally. Maybe it's a zero-byte fork, or maybe it contains some benign information related to the app that last used it (e.g. in the manner that BBEdit stores window positioning, etc. in the rsrc fork of text files). -ben -- Ben Kennedy, chief magician zygoat creative technical services 613-228-3392 | 1-866-466-4628 http://www.zygoat.ca
