Keep in mind that base64 and exe files don't work on a mac. Better to use .pdf files and post them to a web server somewhere.
--------------------------- Bob Moody, owner Moody Associates Product Fundraising for schools, sports teams, daycares, church groups, scouts, and other community groups. Our main product is your profit! Our mission is to make it easy for you to reach your fundraising goals...over and over...year after year. 1986-2003.... 17 years of excellence! office: 540-885-3439 or 800-326-9192 (8-4 M-F) cell: 540-294-9791 toll-free to cell: 866-294-9791 www.fundraisingcentral.net www.bobmoody.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] text messaging to cell: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail: 936 Frog Pond Road Staunton VA 24401-8346 fax 540-885-6670 or toll free 877-936-9192 Replying to message quoted at the bottom of this message. Fri, 13 Jun 2003 11:40:57 -0400 >On 13 6 2003 at 9:44 am -0400, Rick Lecoat wrote: > >>Well, I'm trying to avoid the recipient having to possess specific >>decompression software to open the files, hence the self extracting >>archive which, by necessity, is an application of sorts. But you're >>right, there's a good chance that their server will bounce it so maybe I >>should look at other options. Still, I'm curious to learn why Base64 is >>not suitable for .exe files, f anyone knows. > >Why not post the file to a web server? Not only will that be more >efficient on the infrastructure (assuming it's more than a meg or >something in size), but avoid the virus issue. > >Anyway, my suspicion is that your .exe does have a resource fork locally. > Maybe it's a zero-byte fork, or maybe it contains some benign >information related to the app that last used it (e.g. in the manner that >BBEdit stores window positioning, etc. in the rsrc fork of text files). > >-ben > > >-- >Ben Kennedy, chief magician >zygoat creative technical services >613-228-3392 | 1-866-466-4628 >http://www.zygoat.ca > > > >
