Re: WINMAIL.DAT

Berry Kercheval ( kerch@parc.xerox.com )
Sat, 5 Oct 1996 17:52:58 PDT

>>>Bill Kennerly said:
> There was an attachment to a note today. How is this material used?
> begin 600 WINMAIL.DAT
> M>)\^(C /`0:0" `$```````!``$``0>0!@`(````Y 0```````#H``$(@ <`

As far as I've ever been able to tell, this is safely ignored. It's
apparently an alternate version of the mail message only intelligible to some
PC Mail program or other. I can't tell which one because the tell-tale
headers seem to be stripped off by the listserv.

I unserstand that it includes some fancy font/type size/formatting
information. It looks like a format called "uuencode" originally developed on
Unix machines to allow mailing of binary data through links that only allow
printable ASCII. However, whenever I decode one I get a binary file I can;t
make head or tail of, though there's bits that look like the "real" message.

ObJazz: Did my question about how does a bass player cope with these alternate
harmonizations get out? Or did I miss any response?

In Walter's changes for Laura, where he says "all chords with * are
anticipated by an eighth note" is that what's also called a "push"?

--berry

Berry Kercheval :: kerch@parc.xerox.com :: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center