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Re: Binary mail to/from Compuserve?

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From: Janet Pearse
Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 00:00
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In article <863950559snz@michaels.demon.co.uk>
           4ms2u$ms@michaels.demon.co.uk "Michael Salem" writes:

> I've been trying to exchange binary mail with someone on Compuserve (CI$),
> without success. Does anyone know if CI$ has any trouble sending and 
> receiving mail with attachments, and how to solve any problems?
> 
> My main concern is to know if it's possible, so as not to flog a dead horse;
> is it (1) possible and routine, with nothing special to do; (2) possible by
> doing something specific to CI$; (3) impossible?
> 
The last time I needed to do this, which admittedly was over a year ago,
the Compuserve end had to manually encode the file and include it in the 
message as text.  What CI$ refer to as "Attachments" are/were not
interchangeable with the outside world.

-- 
Janet Pearse
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From: jep@jpcs.demon.co.uk (Janet Pearse)
Subject: Re: Binary mail to/from Compuserve?
Date: 1997/05/19
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