> On Wed, 27 May 1992 13:17:56 CST Jeremy Butler said:

>>    Has anyone experimented with saving WordPerfect files in the format

>>    designed for sending over e-mail channels?

>>

>>    I read somewhere, sometime that WordPerfect can be saved in a 7-bit

>>    format that will allow it to travel over BITNET/Internet and preserve

>>    all of its control codes (i.e., underlining, footnotes, etc.).  I

>>    haven't had a chance to fiddle with this myself, so I was wondering

    if

>>    anyone else had--and with what success.

>

>Why not try compressing it? Zip and StuffIt files can both be sent over

>the net as binary data, which bypasses the various nasties which can

>corrupt the document. Although it won't be quite as easy as straight

>mail, it _will_ get the file there intact, and with the added plus of

>being compressed to save bandwith.

 

    Thanks for the suggestion, Andrew, but putting it into binary format is

    just what I'm trying to avoid.  I think many net users are not familiar

    with, or don't have access to, FTP and thus cannot handle binary file

    transfers.

 

    And also, to put it on SCREEN-L FILELIST it has to be in some sorta

    text format.

 

    And so I'll keep a-searchin'.