Subject: attachment

From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 18:24:48 -0800

I recently received an email message with an attachment which I could not
access.  KPC's computer genius, Mark Jenson, said it can't be done on
pine.  Is this true?  I would really like to read that attachment and will
continue to save it hopefully until I hear from you.  Thank you.
Connie Wheat, evening coordinator, Kenai Peninsula College

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From: Edward M Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 11:52:40 +0800 (GMT)

> Connie Wheat, evening coordinator, Kenai Peninsula College

Without knowing more details....it is kind of hard to answer.

What kind of attachment?  What exactly do you mean by "can not access".

You need to be a bit more descriptive.

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 20:38:30 -0800

I received an email message.  The sender had copied a work document -
essay, and sent it as an attachment to the message.  I could not bring it
up on the screen to read it or print it or anything.
It was a 16K document.  Now can you help me?  :)

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 30 Sep 1997 08:17:20 +0200

>> Regarding Re: attachment; [email-masked] adds:

i> I received an email message.  The sender had copied a work document
i> - essay, and sent it as an attachment to the message.  I could not
i> bring it up on the screen to read it or print it or anything.  It
i> was a 16K document.  Now can you help me?  :)

Sure. This attachment, as the name might suggest, is not part of the
actual message, because it's not in a form your terminal can
display. You need an external viewer for it. So, either you have you
local dudes set up your /etc/mailcap file accordingly (provided
there's a "viewer" for this file - it might well be that you need some 
Windog application) or save the file to a disk and view it with an
appropriate program on another computer.

To save the file, do what is suggested in the email itself: V(iew),
S(ave). Then copy the file to a disk. Done. You know, there's some
*really* good online documentation on this subject...

Later,
Robin

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