Re: Problems with code pages??

["Brad Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jerry,

Are you doing an actual base64 conversion of the stream file
data into the MIME, or just changing the header?  The latter
won't do any good.  You need to encode it.

Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 17:31:56 -0000
 "Tucker Gerry" <Gerry.Tucker@technicolor.com> wrote:
> I've used the QShell jar utility to create a zip file
> which has a code
> page of 819.  If I use the SNDDST command to mail it to
> myself, I can
> open the attachment and extract the contents.  If I look
> at the internet
> header on the mail it includes the following:
>
> Content-Type: application/octet-stream;name=QSYSPRT.ZIP
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> Content-Description:<QSYSPRT.ZIP>
>
> I've just written a command that uses the QtmmSendMail
> API instead of
> the SNDDST command because I wanted to include multiple
> attachments, cc
> and bcc addresses etc.  It works fine for except for when
> I try to send
> a zip file.
>
> When I am building the MIME file, I open any attachment
> and add the
> contents into the MIME stream, which I'd been using with:
>
> Content-Type: application/octet-stream;
> name="QSYSPRT.ZIP"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> Content-Disposition: inline; filename="QSYSPRT.ZIP"
>
> This works fine for csv, html, txt and pdf attachments
> but zips come
> through as invalid archives.
>
> I tried changing the MIME to the base64 encoding above
> for zips but
> still got invalid archives.
>
> Anyone know what I am doing wrong?  Both the MIME file
> and the zip are
> code page 819.  Has it got anything to do with the way I
> am using the
> open api (as follows)?
>
> Eval      AttHdl     = open( %Addr( FullNam ):
>                         O_RDONLY + O_TEXTDATA )
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Gerry Tucker
> Senior Analyst Programmer
> Technicolor Distribution Services
> Wembley, U.K.
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Bradley V. Stone
BVS.Tools
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