Subject: Change encoding for Attachments?

From: "Carlos A. Pero" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 11:25:35 -0500

I've just started playing around with PINE, and realized that the 
default MIME encoding for Attachments is BASE64.  I don't know much about 
MIME, but I would guess this is the de-facto standard.

The only problem I have is that if I want to attach a simple text file, 
it gets BASE64'd for no real purpose.  I like the convenience of Pine's 
attachment viewer, but there are A LOT of people who don't use MIME-aware 
tools.  Yes, it's their loss, but is there some way I can specify that a 
text attachment not be encoded at all?  Or how about BinHex or something?

-Carlos

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From: [email-masked] (Rick Troxel)
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1995 19:40:34 GMT

In article
<[email-masked]> "Carlos
A. Pero" <[email-masked]> writes:

   The only problem I have is that if I want to attach a simple text file, 
   it gets BASE64'd for no real purpose.

Just "Read in" the text file with a Ctrl-R keypress, instead of
"Attaching" it.

Regards,
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Rick Troxel     [email-masked]     [email-masked]     301/496-4823
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