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I've seen some strange stuff. Today, I think that most HR people should be competent enough to bring up MS Word from their email client. However, I've seen good competent people in an engineering environment with email programs that could not convert Base64 attachments. I always had to send uuencoded documents to that person. Since RTF is text, if sent incorrectly it can suffer the same type of mangling that occurs in the body of email, which is one reason when I want to send something of any format, I force it to be an attachment and sometimes force Base64 (or uuencode if it is appropriate). Also, email servers at some companies might be an IBM mainframe using EBDIC and not ASCII, so things can get mutilated. On 20 Nov 2002 at 11:26, Jonathan Arnold wrote: > I dunno that I'd want a job at a place that can't figure out how to > read an RTF file! Any more than I'd want a job at a place that required > me to wear a tie. I know in this climate it's hard for beggars to be > choosers, but ya gotta draw the line somewhere, don't you?) -- Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> Associate Director Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9
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