Re: LOGO-L> MIME format

[George Mills <mills@softronix.com>]

John Annable wrote:
> 
> Dear All,
>  Could somebody please explain to me how you access all of these
> wonderful files that are in MIME format. All I can see is a bunch of
> heiroglyphics. Obviously there is a protocol for turning them into
> turtlepics.
> 

Generally a modern Mailer will decode them for you (Like Netscape
or Eudora, and some "Corporate" Mailers).

Most "internet" literate mailers are what is known as "POP" mailers
which is what most everyone with an ISP uses. Except real big ISP's
like AOL and Compuserve. Netscape, IE40, Eudora are POP mailers.
CCMail, LotusNotes, AOL's, MSN, CompuServe are not POP mailers.
Although some of these non POP mailers do support MIME, you cannot
pick and choose your mailer so easily.

Some mailers that do know how to "display" the file might need to be
told so through its options menus (but these are usually options for
sending and not receiving).

Some folks are stuck with older "corporate" mailers that might not
support the format.

There are public domain tools that will decode the file
(assuming your mailer/mail-system kept the file intact).
Try some internet searches on something like "MIME DECODER".

You can also view the pictures with most www browsers by visiting
http://archives.gsn.org/logo-l or with most news readers by visiting
comp.lang.logo

Good luck.

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