Subject: Attachments: How to?

From: Jon Peck <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 1994 15:18:20 -500 (EST)

As someone else here put it earlier today, I'm fairly new to Pine, like 
it a lot, and understand it a little. In that context, can someone please 
(in English!) tell me how to do file transfers via e-mail between me 
(Pine 3.90, via a PC/modem calling into a Unix-based university computer) 
and someone who accesses e-mail through either Compu$erve or AOL?

I know how to attach a file to my messages. I know how to extract a file 
from my messages. But this only seems to work when I'm doing it with 
someone else who is running Pine. What am I missing? I've tried sending 
an attachment to someone, both as a standard .gif file and as one that 
has been run through uuencode. In each case, the recipient got my e-mail, 
but no attached file.

Any help would be muchly appreciated. Thanks!

Jon Peck
Tallahassee, FL
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Paul S. Haring)
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 1994 18:16:50 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> Jon Peck <[email-masked]> writes:
>From: Jon Peck <[email-masked]>
>Subject: Attachments: How to?
>Date: Tue, 20 Dec 1994 15:18:20 -500 (EST)

>[email-masked]

Many newsreaders can not deal with attachments, CI$ and AOL amoung them.  
What you can do is uuencode the file and include it in the body of your mail 
message.  Then, assuming they know how to do it and have the tool, the 
recipient can uudecode it.  That was SOP before attachments came along.

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From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: 23 Dec 1994 16:02:21 GMT

>Many newsreaders can not deal with attachments, CI$ and AOL amoung them.  

If their mailer/receiver can't deal with attachments isn't the file 
presented as straight ascii?  So, in some sense, they can deal with 
attachments (but not as nicely as Pine).

>recipient can uudecode it.  That was SOP before attachments came along.

Why not MIME encode it, i.e., use Pine's attachment capability, and
then the receiver can use something like munpack to Mime UNPACK it.

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