Subject: Bugs

From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 15:51:27 +0100 (MEZ)

Since I began using pine I have had a number of problems which I was
unable to overcome eventhough I  did read your mannual.I have
a text in wordperfect 5.1 format more than 700,000 million byte.Question
1)how can I send this text using pine; 2)if this is not possible into what
form of data should I convert to send it per pine.I shall be very much
glad if you were to promptly respond to my queries.

Yours Sinceryl

Professor Dr.samuel Tadesse

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From: Norbert Koch <[email-masked]>
Date: 12 Jan 1998 16:39:03 +0100

>>>On Mon, 12 Jan 1998 15:51:27 +0100 (MEZ), [email-masked] said:

Hi,

 s> Since I began using pine I have had a number of problems which I
 s> was unable to overcome eventhough I did read your mannual.I have a
 s> text in wordperfect 5.1 format more than 700,000 million
 s> byte.Question 1)how can I send this text using pine; 2)if this is
 s> not possible into what form of data should I convert to send it
 s> per pine.I shall be very much glad if you were to promptly respond
 s> to my queries.

(1) is it possible that you mixed up some numbers? You are talking
about sending a file of 700 GB ... quite a story.

(2) if you've tried send a mail with your document inserted into it,
the sendmail agent fails (I hope, I haven't mixed up things here). 

So, here we go ... provided, the file is less than, let's say, 2 MB
which I regard of as a reasonable size to send via email (use ftp in
other cases or split the file), try to attach the file, that is Ctrl-J
while you are in the header region. This converts the binary data into
ASCII and sendmail (or whatever) won't complain about it.

hth, norbert.

-- 
Norbert Koch
a rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing!