RE: Brock - attachments

Attachments are files that are 'attached' to your email. I won't go all
technical on you and explain how it's done. 

These files can be in many formats. When you click on the attachment you
have received in your email, the file extension of that file is
referenced against a list of extensions contained in a section of your
Windows registry. Associated with that extension is a process of some
type, many times an executable file (.EXE). This executable is then run
and the attached file is loaded. 

URLs are sometimes considered attachments although all they are are
addresses of web pages.  Example :
http://www.athenet.net/~dang/pumpkins.html. 

Hope this helps. Tomorrow we'll learn how magnets work.

Mike



> -----Original Message-----
> From:	John Sargeant [SMTP:John.Sargeant@stdc.govt.nz]
> Sent:	Monday, January 05, 1998 2:52 PM
> To:	'Pumpkin Mailing List'
> Subject:	Brock - attachments
> 
> Hi Brock.
> I haven't a clue what attachments are. If you can read the posting to
> the 'Have a Parky day' bit then you have seen the lot. I will get out
> IT boffins to sort out what they can be and let you know. 
> All I do is press the keys and things happen. How many meggagiggles or
> whatever and how it happens is all a mystery to me.
> 
> One good thing i that my PC is at work and now on Windows 97 so making
> a Homepage is a piece of cake and cal all be done on 'Word'. I hope to
> have my home page all set up in a few weeks. Because I work in
> promotion and Recreation etc I will need to talk with the Tourism
> Taranaki people to work in wuth their pages. 
> 
> I used to have a Mac and swore by it. I got an IBM and swore AT it.
> Good job they got all the legal stuff sorted so computer duffs like me
> can use it ok.
> 
> Cheers
> John S
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