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. Hope this little tip helps... ---------- What the great philosophers have said vis-a-vis love (as interpreted by Matt Groening): Love is a slippery eel that bites like hell. --Bertrand Russell ---------- |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| || Andrew Vernon || || || || Anything is possible... || || || || BITNET: AVERNON1@UA1VM Internet: [log in to unmask] || || Student Publications - The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Ala. || ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||