Time: Wed Nov 13 21:12:20 1996
To: minutemn@pcl.net (Mike Kemp)
From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: experiment to isolate correct encoding
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attaching JURYCHAL.ZIP in MIME encoding.
decompress this file with PKUNZIP,
in a new directory named C:\JURYCHAL.DIR

/s/ Paul Mitchell



At 09:39 PM 11/13/96 -0800, you wrote:
>Paul:
>	The binhex40 won't run. I have a copy (in DOS dir, don't know how 
>it got there) of pkunzip which responds properly to the /? query.

OK, this is an important clue.

 If you 
>want to experiment, I'm game. This computer is acting real squirrely 
>tonight, though, I have to tell you. I never know when it is my old 
>clunker or the server.
>	I am more Dos literate than windows, and am mainly out of 
>practice other than with direct applicationof the programs which I use. 
>I'm rusty.
>	I'm having trouble staying on line, so if you forward it to me, 
>give me a while, perhaps till tomorrow morning, since this thing gets 
>where I can't log on at ight, somnetimes. Like I said, binhex doesn't 
>work, just try the other two. If I'm not mistaken, "mime" worked last 
>time. I am running Netscape mail, from Navigator 2.01, I think.
>
>Mike
>
>
>Paul Andrew Mitchell wrote:
>> 
>> Mike,
>> 
>> There is a chronic problem with email
>> software:  they do not automatically
>> detect the encoding method, unless
>> both programs (sender and receiver)
>> and the same.  Thus, if you were using
>> Eudora Pro, as I do, then Eudora would
>> detect the encoding automatically.
>> 
>> If you do not have a program which can
>> detect the encoding I use by default,
>> then it may not be able to decode at
>> your end.  I have the following three
>> choices:
>> 
>> 1.  BinHex (my present default)
>> 2.  MIME
>> 3.  Uuencode
>> 
>> I can re-send everything in both
>> MIME and Uuencode.  But, before I
>> waste my time on trial-and-error,
>> you need to agree to do an experiment
>> with me.  I can send you three small
>> test files which are identical,
>> except for the encoding which I have
>> used at my end.  The test file will
>> be PKUNZIP.EXE, uncompressed.  When
>> you get this file, test it by doing
>> the following at the DOS prompt, after
>> changing to the directory where this
>> attachment was written by your computer:
>> 
>>   pkunzip /?
>> 
>> So, if your email software writes attachments
>> in C:\TEMP, then do this:
>> 
>>   C:\MYDIR> cd \
>>   C:> cd temp
>>   C:\TEMP> pkunzip /?
>> 
>> This will produce user documentation
>> on the screen, without reading any
>> files, if it is working.  If it is
>> not working, you will know immediately.
>> 
>> Let me know when you are ready to do
>> this experiment.
>> 
>> /s/ Paul Mitchell
>
>
      

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