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AOL may have a problem with long .gif files. People I send them to often
get them as mime files rather than .gif if I send them from a non AOL
address. If the same file is sent AOL to AOL then it comes through as .gif.
BobR
At 02:44 PM 9/21/97 UT, David Pearson wrote:
>Apparently, some RT's receive gif files with no problem. Others don't.
>
>When I receive my own gif attached posts from the RT listserver I have no
>problem. An icon appears in the post of the gif file. I simply double click
>the icon and my gif viewer opens the file.
>
>I don't know how wide spread this problem is. The obvious solution is to
send
>both a gif file and an encoded MIME txt file of the gif. What a hasle.
>
>Is there another option?
>
>By the way, I have heard that the email program in Netscape Communicator
4.03
>and the soon to be released final version of Internet Explorer 4.0 can open
>the gif files. when the post is read. No work around decoding to be done.
>
>Is that true? If so, then for those of you out there that can upgrade to
the
>latest versions, please do. www.browsers.com (part of www.cnet.com) is a
>great place to get unbiased infomation and evaluations. Plus you can
download
>the programs from that site.
>
>
>Talk with you later,
>
>David "a gif is worth a thousand words" Pearson
>
>
>PS. I didn't receive my (3 of 6) post on trendlines from the RT
listserver.
>I sent it three times. Did anybody else get it? What gives? Some of my
>posts are received are some are not.
>
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