Subject: Pine and Attached Files

From: [email-masked] ()
Date: 27 Nov 1994 21:31:49 GMT

By James Corneil 
Edmonton Freenet
Alberta Canada

	I was at a new computer store this week here in Edmonton, no 
names but 
it was one of those new warehouse like computer superstores.
	
In this computer store they had a room set up for seminars and one of the 
topics was the new Edmonton FreeNet that I belong to. 
At the seminar someone asked if the program Pine scrambles a file 
attached to an Email message. No one really knew if it does this on not.  
It was one of those things that get you thinking.  If you send an Email 
message with an attached file to someone who does not have the Pine 
program will it end up distorted?  

Now I am new to the Internet and I have not had a lot of time with the 
Pine program so I do not know if it really does this.  If someone out 
there can tell me if this is true on not,
I would be most grateful to you.
 
I do not think a Pine user would like to start sending files to people 
and find out that it's not going to work. 

Please Email me or reply to this News Group.
	
James 	([email-masked].)
Edmonton Freenet 
Canada

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From: [email-masked] (Jim Davis)
Date: 27 Nov 1994 22:08:52 -0700

In article <[email-masked]>,  <[email-masked]> wrote:

:At the seminar someone asked if the program Pine scrambles a file 
:attached to an Email message. No one really knew if it does this on not.  

:Now I am new to the Internet and I have not had a lot of time with the 
:Pine program so I do not know if it really does this.

If you can find the time, you really should read the online help.  It
explains that Pine uses MIME encoding with attachments, and lists some
reasons why that's a Good Thing.  If you get ambitious with your
reading program, you might get the comp.mail.mime FAQ and discover why
MIME is a Good Thing, and learn about other MIME decoders besides
Pine.

But who reads documentation anymore?