LOGO-L> Re: LOGO-L> Attaching code to e-mail

[lahvak@math.mps.ohio-state.edu (Jan Hlavacek)]

On 20 Nov 1998 15:59:10 GMT, Brian Harvey <bh@anarres.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
wrote:
> Peter Tomcsanyi <tomcsany@internet.sk> writes:
> >I use Eudora Lite (a quite commonly used mailer, I think) and it is not
> >able to decode UUencoded attachments, so I have to save the e-mail to a
> >file and to decode it using another program.
> >Most of the attachments on this list are MIME or BINHEX encoded, which
> >cause no problem for Eudora Lite. Just the two most recent attachments
>
> And this is one reason why that incredibly rude person, despite being
> incredibly rude, was right.  Although any encoding is a pain for me,
> uuencode is much less of a pain than either mime or binhex, so I would
> have to vote the other way.  This is why ASCII, which everyone can read,
> is the only reasonable representation for text in widely distributed
> messages.

How about attaching code as ASCII,  without encoding.  There really is
no reason to encode Logo code in any way.   Just attach the code as a
text file,  that way MIME capable software can save the attachment and
spawn logo interpretter on it,  or pipe it directly to logo,  while it
still stays readable for people without MIME.

Let me also remind everybody that LOGO-L is gatewayed to the
comp.lang.logo newsgroups,  and on usenet,  MIME isn't commonly
accepted standard.  Lot of newsreders do not handle multipart messages
at all.

If you attach file as ASCII text,  the MIMEless programs display them
just fine,  except that they add some messy part separators at the
begining and end of each part.  I have learned to ignore these.

--
Jan Hlav\'{a}\v{c}ek
lahvak@math.mps.ohio-state.edu  (Blind Carbon Copies will bounce)
www: http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~lahvak/



---------------------------------------------------------------
Please post messages to the Logo forum to logo-l@gsn.org.  Mail
questions about the list administration to logofdn@gsn.org.  To
unsubscribe send    unsubscribe logo-l    to majordomo@gsn.org.