Some of the attachments I receive are just lines of code while attachments
in other emails appear just fine. Seems, but I'm not sure, that the problem
attachments usually come from the same people. Is there anything I can do to
correct this?
TIA...Dan

"Dan" wrote in message
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Some of the attachments I receive are just lines of code


Perhaps they use Linefeed as a line end instead of CRLF?


while attachments
in other emails appear just fine. Seems, but I'm not sure, that the problem
attachments usually come from the same people. Is there anything I can do to
correct this?
TIA...Dan


Open them with a program which treats LF as line end?
E.g. I think IE might even do that for you...
In a pinch I think you could pipe the output of more (in a cmd window)
to a new file and open that with your other viewer instead...

XML files are often an example of what I am getting at
but IE treats them differently because of the extension.
Rename the extension to see the real effect and then
compare with View Source. E.g. Notepad treats LF
as a data character.


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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I would need to know of what those "lines of code" look like.

See the Problems and Complications section of
Decoding Internet Attachments - A Tutorial
http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_san...de.htm#problem

But if they are coming from the same people, it's most likely a problem
on their end.

However, if you are using SpamKiller, and the senders are using Lotus
Notes, the problem is that SpamKiller corrupts message headers of
messages from Lotus Notes.

--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"Dan" wrote in message
news
Some of the attachments I receive are just lines of code while
attachments
in other emails appear just fine. Seems, but I'm not sure, that the
problem
attachments usually come from the same people. Is there anything I
can do to
correct this?
TIA...Dan