--- Forwarded Message from Tommy McDonell <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 19:34:36 -0400 >From: Tommy McDonell <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: [log in to unmask] >Organization: Learning English Adult Program >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: #5282 Attachments to E-Mail >References: <[log in to unmask]> ------------------ I'm not positive of this but when I used to have AOL longer messages were mimed. However he can just go to keyword and type in mime and download the software and translate it. But I believe that it is AOL that is doing this. Were your second documents longer? Tommy in NYC LLTI-Editor wrote: > --- Forwarded Message from [log in to unmask] (Gordon Hartig) --- > > >Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 08:57:00 -0400 > >Subject: Attachments to E-Mail > >To: [log in to unmask] > >From: [log in to unmask] (Gordon Hartig) > > I would like your help with a puzzling situation. I have been sending > documents created in Word 7.0 for Windows 95 to a colleague in England. > His ISP is AOL, and he had no trouble opening and reading the first two > files I sent him as attachments to e-mail messages. These were sent from > my home address, where erols is my ISP and I use Netscape for e-mail. > > Beginning with the third document, this colleague all of a sudden could no > longer open the Word 7.0 attachments, and he is getting a message he > doesn't understand about mime format. I resorted to saving the document > as a text file and attaching that, but I would like to know why he can no > longer read Word 7.0 attachments. I have forwarded these same e-mail > messages from home to my school address, where I can open the Word 7.0 > attachments and read them with no trouble via Office 97. And to my > knowledge I have followed the same procedure to attach and send all of the > Word 7.0 documents. > > Is there a simple explanation for this problem? Any ideas about things > to check either on my end or his? Thanks. > > Gordon Hartig > Language Lab Coordinator > Middlesex Community College > 33 Kearney Square > Lowell MA 01852 > (978) 656-3358