Subject: Re: attached file

From: [email-masked] (Barry Bouwsma)
Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 09:49:49 -0400

In a previous article, [email-masked] (Bradley) says:

>Dave Sperling ([email-masked]) wrote:
>
>> I have been having great success attaching files to Pine and sending my
>> friends on Pine software, binaries, and sound. 
>> Question: Is it possible to attach a file to those not using Pine?
>> Thanks!
>
>Yeah, that's one of the problems that I have with Pine.

    Actually, there are two answers to this question.

    Pine makes use of the MIME encoding for attachments.  This is an
encoding which is being widely adopted by different mailers, meaning
that Pine can speak the same language as other mail programs, and an
attachment created with Pine could very well be decoded by a different
mail program.

    Pine has MIME support built in.  There are other mail programs,
like Pegasus Mail for PC networks, which also have MIME awareness written
into them.  And many mailers have been modified to call an external
program, such as metamail, upon encountering a MIME message.

    If the recipient does not use Pine, it is possible that a mail
program which does understand MIME may be used, in which case, there
should be no problem handling attachments sent by Pine.

    If the recipient does not use a MIME-aware mailer, then the attachment
must be decoded manually.  This message referred to the UUENCODE program,
which requires that the recipient have access to UUDECODE, and there
may be problems with the characters used with a few mail relays.
Comparable to UUDECODE is the mpack program which will decode MIME
messages.  For information on mpack or metamail, see the newsgroup
comp.mail.mime .  With either of these, your recipient could decode
the attachments created with Pine.

    Whether your recipients could understand Pine's attachments directly
must be determined on a case-by-case basis, as it depends on what mail
programs they use.  But it is possible for certain non-Pine-users to
understand MIME messages without difficulty.

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 29 May 1994 00:10:45 -0700 (PDT)

On Fri, 27 May 1994, Brian Weaver wrote:

> Bradley ([email-masked]) wrote:
> : Dave Sperling ([email-masked]) wrote:
> 
> : > I have been having great success attaching files to Pine and sending my
> : > friends on Pine software, binaries, and sound. 
> : > Question: Is it possible to attach a file to those not using Pine?
> : > Thanks!
> 
> : Yeah, that's one of the problems that I have with Pine.
> 
> : You can do it one of 2 ways.  
> : 1.  You can uuencode the file, and then use ^R to insert a text file.
> : 	ie, "uuencode foo foo >foo.uue"  will make a file called 
> : 	foo.uue.  Then, inside pine, you can read in the file as text.
> 
> : 2.  You can use plain old Mail.  The command while writing the body is:
> : 	"~< ! uuencode foo foo
> : 	It MUST be on a new line.
> 
> : Of course, this all assumes that the recieving party knows how to 
> : uudecode a file (which is simple).  
> 
> : Bradley 
> 
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> 
> Is there a way for pine to decode attached files automatically, or
> easily?
> 
> - Brian
> 

Pine 3.90 will have a way to easily uudecode, but not automatically.

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