Re: attachments anyone?

["E. Charters" <echarter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:22 03/09/97 -0700, you wrote:
>Folks,
>
>Kind of an open comment...
>
>Given the wide variety of responses to the attached mystery fossil, perhaps
>one of the list gurus (i.e. Norm) might want to suggest a standard way of
>attaching files.
>
>The golden rule must be "don't!". Ask people if they want the file at all,
>then send the file in a format they can use.
>


# that *.tif file was a word for windows 6.0 file and can be viewed in
  word 6.0.

  these files should be zipped for sending and then uuencoded. But that is
  a trifle complex for some on the other end as it is a two stage decode.

  Just zipping works too.     

  The other solution is to convert to a *.gif file from the shareware
"graphics
  workshop" and then zip. You don't get much compression but it is a trifle
  more secure. GIF can be viewed with all sorts of browsers, word 6.0 
  wordperfect and programs like lview, etc..

  With so many unix machines in academe someone should develop a universal
  file format pc/mac/linux/*unix for compression and viewing, sort of a 
  ziptar.pic

  nuff.


 



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