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giolla@maghmell.demon.co.uk (Giolla Decair) wrote:

>True. I apologise. I will remember not to trust insert and attach
>functions in software again. I should have known it wouldn't have
>spotted the difference between a binary and an ascii file, again 
>sorry.

On that note, most insert / attach functions can spot the difference
between ASCII & binary, but if you throw tham an _ANSI_ file (as
commonly used by Windows) they'll treat it as binary. All it takes is
one accented foreign character in there (high bit set, so it's no
longer ASCII) and the whole file gets Mimed. 

Some version or other of Eudora was doing this to me last week. I
couldn't understand why the user at the far end was mailing me
included text one minute, then Base64 the next. All it was was an "�"
in some of the "text" files.


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Andy Dingley                          dingbat@codesmth.demon.co.uk                                          

If all it takes is an infinite number of monkeys with typewriters, 
how come AOL haven't written any Shakespeare yet ?