I subscribe to a mailing list that shall remain nameless but deals with a lot of
file attachments.
They can be a bigger hassle than they're worth - so I would ask you to keep them
to a minimum, but don't let that stop you if you have something that everyone
absolutely has to have.
It is a lot easier, I have found, to stick binary attachments (and this includes
any word processing documents that have their scripting crap at the top or
throughout the text) on a web page somewhere for people to download at their
liesure - and those without web.access make arrangements with the author of the
original to get it as best they can privately.
FWIU Macinfans can handle ZIP files with some third party freeware available via
the Web. I don't have the address as this is of no possible interest to me but
a little searching and asking around should yield results.
And GNUZip can be de/re-compressed with third party programs AFAIK for all
common platforms. It is a native UNIX program but is quite useable under DOS
based machines - it used to be the defacto standard on the Net a while back.
To agree with The Shadow, straight ASCII is the preferred text format.
Regards, Andrew Boyd
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Subject: Re: Convention Highlights
Author: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au at INTERNET-MAIL
Date: 30/10/96 9:59 AM
Bruce,
All is ok. The attachment is sitting on the top right corner of the
message display window, you should see a yellow paper clip there. If you
click on the paper clip it will open a small window showing a list of
attachments (in this case SATNIGHT.DOC). Click on this file and it should
open.
I wasn't able to read it as I don't have MS Word on my computer. If the
file tries to open in MS Wordpad you will get a message unable to open this
type of document. In this case after clicking the paperclip icon hold down
the CTRL key when you click on SATNIGHT.DOC, this will bring up the "SAVE
ATTACHMENT AS" requester and you can save the file to your TEMP directory.
Then use MS Word to open the file.
There is a lot to learn when we change e-mail programs as they all behave
differently. It would be nice though if we (the RML gang) could
standardise on file types as there will always be some people that don't
have access to some of the programs to read other persons documents.
- I would suggest sending all text files including attachments as straight
ASCII to make it easier.
- I think that ZIP compression files are standard on IBM's but I don't know
about Macintosh, does anyone out there have any suggestions?
Regards,
Barry Meiklejohn.
Don't forget to visit the ANGFA Web Pages at
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~fisher/angfa.htm
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> From: Bruce Hansen <bhansen at ozemail.com.au>
> Date: Tuesday, 29 October 1996 21:21
>
> Unfortunately my Email program( Internet Mail) will not show me your
> attachment. I guess that is the price I pay for no Winmail.dat :-)
>
> Bruce Hansen
> ANGFA