> On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Stelios Bounanos wrote:
>
> > > Even more annoying is to get reams of this stuff
> > >
> > >
> > > begin 600 winmail.dat
> > > M>)\^(AL0`0:0"``$```````!``$``0>0!@`(````Y`0```````#H``$(@`<`
> > > M&````$E032Y-:6-R;W-O9G0@36%I;"Y.;W1E`#$(`06``P`.````S@<$`!@`
> > [snip]
> >
> > Yes, what is this??
> >
>
> This is a uuencoded file. The strings above are sometimes referred to as
> radix-64. They are generated by moving 6 bits at a time of the original
> data into an 8 bit byte, and then adding 32. The result is what you see
> above. The reason for this is to eliminate any characters between 0-31,
> 127-255 decimal for the purpose of email. Mime uses a similar scheme.
>[snip]
Thanks, but I know about uuencoded files. :)
My question was, what's in this `winmail.dat'?
What's the purpose of this file? (I suspect an M$ thing...)
And why do some people send 3820 bytes of junk to everyone on this list?
Thanks for the info. about how uuencode actually works, though.
sb.
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