Subject: How to attach a binary file????

From: [email-masked] (Duffy Men)
Date: 12 Jul 1994 18:16:27 GMT

I would like mail a binary file to someone.  Can anyone tell me how to 
attach a binary file and how big the size can be?  my file may be 10 Mb.
Thank you??

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From: "Brian P. Hampson" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 1994 16:00:53 -0700 (PDT)

> attach a binary file and how big the size can be?  my file may be 10 Mb.

You can only attach it to someone if they have MIME capabilies.  If so, 
then you can simply put the fully qualified filename in the ATTACHMENT 
section of the header.

B.

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From: pcfong@hkusub ([ Marlboro | PC ] 8D)
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 1994 08:39:04 GMT

Duffy Men ([email-masked]) wrote:
: I would like mail a binary file to someone.  Can anyone tell me how to 
: attach a binary file and how big the size can be?  my file may be 10 Mb.

	Write a mail to your friend.  On the header line "Attachment:", 
press "Control-J".  You'll then be prompted for a filename and you can 
write short description of this file as attached with your mail.

	Mind the file size of 10MB.  Though your account can hold it, 
your friend's may not.  You may want to compress it before attaching it 
to the mail.  Common compression programs like PKZIP/LHA/GZIP may help.  
Of course you friend shoud have a copy of the same compression program to 
be able to decompress the file.

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From: John Cullen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 1994 12:32:16 +0100

> : attach a binary file and how big the size can be?  my file may be 10 Mb.
...
> your friend's may not.  You may want to compress it before attaching it 
...

Be aware too, that even if your account can hold a file of that size, and 
your friend's account can also, the same may not be true of the 
intermediary mail systems between your two sites! For example, mail from 
colleagues of mine in the UK is limited by the gateway (nsfnet-relay) to 
500K messages, even though they could send 10Mb, and I could 
(technically) receive!

You may want to check out a program to split the file into pieces, eg. 
the GNU split program will work on both byte and line counts.

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Hope this helps,

John.
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From: Roman Czyborra <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 1994 10:53:16 +0200

> > : Can anyone tell me how to attach a binary file and how big the
> > : size can be?  my file may be 10 Mb.
> > You may want to compress it before attaching it 
> Be aware too, that even if your account can hold a file of that
> size, and your friend's account can also, the same may not be true
> of the intermediary mail systems between your two sites

It is a lot more convenient to use mailto or mpack which produce
MIME's message/partial format so that the parts can be sorted and
reassembled automatically.  Pine3.89 can't do that yet but the new
Pine will hopefully handle them via mailcap.