Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/26

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Subject: Re: Help / Mime????
From: Jim Brick <jim@brick.org>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 15:56:28 -0800

At 05:57 PM 11/26/97 -0500, you wrote:
> Would someone please tell me what exactly does "mime" mean?
> Someone keeps trying to email me a combination of text with a pic
> of a Leica and the format title is "leica.mime".  I receive the text but
> cannot convert the image into a usable (jpeg,gif, tif or bmt).  Am I 
> doing something wrong or is it the sender?
>
> Marvin
>

M I M E  =  Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions. The system for providing
graphics and other non-textual data through e-mail. Your e-mail program
should take care of turning it into a viewable file.

Jim