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

[Jerry Guizar]

In <199608280805.SAA02489 at burwood.pcmicro.com.au>, on 08/28/96 at 04:55
PM,
   Assassin Sonique <sonique at HYME.PCMICRO.COM.AU> said:

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

>> Can any technically minded person explain what this is and why this happ
>> There's someone on another list I'm on who has a win.dat attached to EVE
>> 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?

   Tell them to use MIME. I haven't been checking the headers, but I don't
think they're MIME messages - looks more like something from Windows.
These people aren't using something like Word to write their messages are
they?

Jerry

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