[imp] Attachment Problem

Michael M Slusarz slusarz at bigworm.colorado.edu
Thu Feb 13 11:40:00 PST 2003


Quoting Eric Rostetter <eric.rostetter at physics.utexas.edu>:

| Quoting srikarreddy kasarla <srikarreddyk at yahoo.com>:
| 
| >     when i attached a file in IMP compose window it
| > showing the file size as twice the original file size.
| > Any idea why it is happening.
| 
| No, but a few others have the same problem.  I've not found any common
| thread between those seeing this problem.  The problem is very rare...

Base64 encoding increases the size of files on average by 33% (or more) so 
maybe that is what you are seeing...

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at bigworm.colorado.edu]
The University of Colorado at Boulder


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