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Article #13683Re: Binary mail to/from Compuserve?
From: Janet Pearse
Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 00:00
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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