Hi, These parts are so called attachments which use the so called MIME encoding ( not a "quasi-usenet-standard", but a real-standard ), so binaries and files of any length can safely be delivered to any MIME-capable mail reading program. If you send an attachment to someone who does not have a MIME-capable mail reading program yet, then the main message text will be readable, but attachments (even attachments which are just plain text) are not. In this case the addressee can still "decode" attached files using external MIME-capable utilities ( after the mail is saved into a disk file, for example ). The best idea however, is to GET a MIME-capable mail reading program NOW. If you use anything that has TUNIX or MicroSchrott in it's name, you can take ( my favorite ) Pine - a Program for Internet News & Email ( see http://www.washington.edu/pine/ for details ). If you prefer a "graphical" interface to your mails ( Pine has a simple, full screen, text oriented interface ) just take Netscape, for example. If you are stick to one of newer WinDose ( 95, 98 ), you can also, as far as I know, use their standard utilities which are also MIME-capable. Hope this helps, Jacek. P.S. Other OS ? See http://www.washington.edu/pine/overview/non-UW.html for details. Jacek.
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