Subject: Attachments

From: Carla Golden <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 10:40:56 -0600 (CST)

How can I view the APPLEFILE?   How can you print the below files?  

[Part 2.1, Application/APPLEFILE  588bytes]
  [Can not display this part. Use the "V" command to save in a file]

  [Part 2.2, Image/GIF  35KB]
  [Not Shown. Use the "V" command to view or save this part]

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From: Henry Robertson <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 12:33:00 -0500 (EST)

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From: Ian Russell Ollmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 22:44:34 -0800

>   [Not Shown. Use the "V" command to view or save this part]

I had this happen to me recently, except that it was for some Global
Village modem prefs which GV had e-mailed to me from their AOL account.
The APPLEFILE did a very strange thing when I finally got it onto my mac.
I used pine's viewer function to save it as a file on our unix box and
then sent it to our apple via sz on modem. When I launched it, this little
1 kilobyte file started up *and played* the complete Dark Forces Demo,
which is usually 3+ MB in size! There are two alternative explanations for
this. 1) Apple has produced the best form of compression ever devised and
strangely kept it under its hat or 2) somehow, the part of the file that
tells the mac where to look for the rest of everything and what to do with
it somehow gets divorced from the rest of the application when mac files
go through (AOL?)/MIME/pine. In my case, this little snippet of a file
might have allied itself with the Dark Forces Demo which was adjacent to
it on the hard drive or something. Obviously, I have no hard facts on the
matter, but I am very interested in what is going on here. I was truly
astounded to find myself playing Dark Forces when I had intended to
install a small extension to the system! For reference, the rest of the
file (the data fork) which was untimely ripped from the Applefile, did not
work, although I seem to recall that it was editable with teachtext. 

Carla, on a practical aside, have your friend send you the GIF as a
binhexed file from his mac. That should solve the transfer problem. 

For you dudes and dudettes at washington.edu, I am using pine 3.91 for sgi
on a Pers. Iris 4D/35 running IRIX 4.0.5. 

				Ian

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From: [email-masked] (Alan J. Flavell)
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 1995 11:16:32 GMT

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The applefile is of no use to you other than on a Mac.  Just 
ignore it.  However, the Image/GIF should be fine - just follow
the instructions for saving it to a disk file, and (if necessary) 
override the Mac filename that it offers you, with a filename 
that is appropriate on your own system.

What do you mean, "print" it?  If you want a paper copy, you'll
still need an application that can understand GIF image files on
your system.  Just sending a GIF-format image to a printer is not
likely to do anything useful.

Since you did not say what system you are using, it's hard to 
advise you.  If it's unix then you should get (if you don't 
already have) the shareware app "xv".  On a peecee you could
use Lview.  There are lots of other packagess that can do this, 
though.  There are usenet groups that deal specifically with
graphics/images: look in their FAQs for recommendations.

Good luck

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Alan    |   http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/%7Eflavell/
(Umleiting - Sigbau)

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From: Carla Golden <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 12:51:05 -0600 (CST)