[geeks] GMAIL and Macintosh attachments

Caleb Shay caleb at webninja.com
Wed Sep 22 08:34:49 CDT 2004


On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 15:23 +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
<snip>
> This worked with a 5 meg file, but it's awfuly unewildy. Anyone have a better
> way? Is there a hidden GMAIL flag to recombine Macintosh parts? Is there a
> utility that will combine AppleDouble pieces after they are decoded into
> "file" and "%file".

The trick is that people on Macs should know by now not to send
applications via email, it's only been a problem now for what, 10 or 15
years?  If it's not a plain document, stuffit first.  If you've already
been handed the file(s), use macutil to recombine the parts.

http://homepages.cwi.nl/~dik/english/ftp.html

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Caleb Shay <caleb at webninja.com>



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