Subject: Re: Text attachments...won't work?

From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 1994 14:31:40 -0800

Pine uses BASE64 encoding for all attachments which looks alot like
uuencode, but is not compatible.  Any MIME-aware mailer should be able to
read a Pine attachment.  I believe Eudora supports MIME, so I don't know
what the problem would be unless you have an unusually lame mail transport
somewhere that is corrupting the MIME... 

|\ |  |\/|  David L. Miller    [email-masked]  (206) 685-6240
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On Thu, 29 Dec 1994, David Hosten wrote:

> Date: Thu, 29 DEC 1994 10:01:05 
> From: David Hosten <[email-masked]>
> Newgroups: comp.mail.pine
> Subject: Text attachments...won't work? 
> 
> A collegue of mine is trying to send me an interview using his Unix system at 
> the University of Alberta [Pine]. For some reason it arrives uuencoded, 64bit, 
> and is not uudecodable. I use Pine on Aix at the university and Eudora thru a 
> SLIP at home. I can't figure out why an ascii attachment does not transfer 
> without being endoded. Any suggestions? Please send replies to:   
> [email-masked].
> 
> Thanks for your time.
> 
> 
> 
>

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From: Ray McAllister <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 1994 16:23:44 -0500 (EST)

David,
	As a relative newcomer I had the same problem and there is 
probably a very simple answer but I've learned to send ASCII files as 
part of my message. I use Procom 2 but perhaps other programs will work 
as well. Here is how;
When you log on type rz. Some gibberish appears on the \next line. Now go 
to the folder with the up arrow on the action bar at the top of Procom. 
>From the next scren pick the proper drive, then directory and file and 
select it. When scxreen says it is 100% entered or copied, click OK.
Go back to pine and C (compose) message. Wherever you want the file in 
ASCII, as part of the message, type control R and only the filename and 
extension. say yes and it is in yourmessage as an ASCII txt file which 
comes across well. 
	Now all I have to do is learn how to print it! The prYnt in pine 
appears *not* to work, and I have not learned how to copy to a disk yet.
	Good pining.     Ray McAllister mcallist@gate,net