OFF: win.dat (was Re: HW : Name)

[Assassin Sonique]

On 28 Aug 96 at 14:10, Peter Sondergeld wrote:

> Can any technically minded person explain what this is and why this happens?
> There's someone on another list I'm on who has a win.dat attached to EVERY
> post, and they've apologised profusely and frequently, saying that their
> computing people are unable to stop it happening

They are pretty much telling the truth there ....there are a few mail
readers around which do neet things like allow embedded objects (such
as graphics etc.) included in the file ..... this is NON standard, so
to get it all to work the data which describes the add ons (such as
font information etc.) is sent as an attachment which THAT particular
mail reader detects and decodes automatically.

The only solution is to use another mail agent .... which may or may
not be possible depending on their mail server. Does that make sense?

Paul/Sonique

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