Brent wrote: I gather the Association wants me to talk about the many and confusing methods of compressing/encoding files for transmission over the net, on diskette, as e-mail attachments, and so on. This would entail topics like Base64, Binhex, MIME, ZIP, etc etc. I'm kind of rusty on a lot of this stuff... any suggestions for good reference sites on such topics? Doesn't have to be just PC, by the way... Mac, Unix and other info gladly accepted. I'm certainly no expert but can tell you a little about Macs: the most popular method is Stuffit, and easiest way to send files is as a self-extracting archive, or .sea file. Mac users can also make and decode zip files using Zipit, but I've not had much luck making zip files for use on PCs. As I recall, the main problem was that I was never able to figure out how to prevent Zipit from truncating file names to 8.3. Finally found it easier just to have a friend with a Mac and a PC do it for me. And of course can now do it myself now that I've bought a PC. Biggest, peskiest problem we've had for years is sending comp files of album covers to musicians, most of whom are AOL users. (AOL is best for them because many of them are on the road much of the time.) We finally just gave up and started posting stuff on Web pages for them to view instead of trying to send attachments. The unencoding or unbinhexing or whatever it is that you have to do is just to much for them to handle. Another workaround for AOL that I've used is to have the user open a temporary free email account on Eudora Mail so they can read attachments without them getting munched by AOL. Hope that helps, Suz Suzanne Stephens; partner, Dave Stephens Design Ashland, Oregon http://www.kickassdesign.com E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________________________________________________________ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Join The NEW Web Consultants Association FORUMS and CHAT: Register Today at: http://just4u.com/forums/ Web Consultants Web Site : http://just4u.com/webconsultants Give the Gift of Life This Year... Just4U Stop Smoking Support forum - helping smokers for over three years-tell a friend: http://just4u.com/forums/ To get 500 Banner Ads for FREE go to http://www.linkbuddies.com/start.go?id=111261 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
