Re: Attachments

[P3D Sandman <sandler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

P3D Erlys says:
>Gabriel and Sid,
>I understand how to use the Attach feature to send attached pictures to
>other people in Netscape, but how do I receive an attachment and turn it
>into its original form before it was attached, i.e., a jpg or zip file?
>Even if I get a nice picture at the bottom of my incoming email, I still
>don't know how to turn it into a jpg file that is viewable in Cshow. Or
>what do I do with a zip file that someone sends me (which attaches
>itself at the bottom with hiroglyphics, as Dr. T described)? I'm just
>missing a link here, that's all. I have migrated too quickly from DOS to
>Windows to HTML to Internet Mail..................  Erlys

Ok (I would prefer to answer this one off the list but there seems to
be enough people asking),

Netscape does what is called a MIME attachment.  When using netscape if
you right click the picture it will give you the option to save the
picture.  Using any other mailer it will probably just give you the
option to save the attachment (pine).

Condensed techy-speak:  MIME is a standard (rfc) for transmitting 
data over the Internet through mail.  Normally mail only allows
7-bit data  The MIME standard represents 8-bit data in 7-bit
characters using multiple char fragments for each 8-bit character.  
Some data space is also used to tell start/stop and other codes.  This
is useful for anything that is not text and there is known codes for
images, sound, tar files, big things etc.  Write me in E-mail
for more info.

Sandman


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