On: Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 06:12:36PM -0500,Winship Wrote:

} Not many of you use your list's filelist (catalog) these days, 'cept for
} maybe your list's "Welcome," but I do.  I've put many files in lists'
} filelists, but have never tried to put an item with attachments before.
} Is it possible to put a file with attachments in the filelist so that
} when someone GETs the file the attachments work (don't want to see a
} string of gibberish)?  If so, how?  None of my attempts have worked.

Most mailers require that in order to recognise attachments, there has
to be a mime header in the email.  An example:

     Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="M9NhX3UHpAaciwkO"

Without that header, you will see the mime-encoded (usually base64) file
as gibberish.  It can be extracted with a bit of work.

Save it as a text file on your PC.  I use an extension of B64 (which may
not matter) but is a convenience because on my PC, double clicking on a
".b64" file in explorer will open Winzip with that file.  I don't recall
if that was done by Winzip when I installed it or I did it myself.

Using a text editor, remove all except the actual encoded file.  This
step may not be needed but I do it anyway for "cleanness".

Point Winzip at the file and extract.  Other zip programs MAY also
recognize and extract base64 encoding, haven't tried.  Back in Win31
days I used Wincode from Snappy Software, which seems to have gone away.

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