Re: Sending Mail From Cobol

From: Frederico Fonseca (real-email-in-msg-spam_at_email.com)
Date: 03/04/04 

Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 21:02:50 +0000

On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 19:26:31 GMT, superk <member@mainframeforum.com>
wrote:

>Thane Hubbell wrote:
> > Curious though - what are you going to attach? What could possibly exist
> > on the mainframe that you can attach that would be of use on the PC?
> > There's a whole EBCDIC/ASCII issue to consider especially if you get
> > into MIME binary attachments.
>We regularly e-mail RTF and PDF documents that we have generated on
>the mainframe to groups of recipients for viewing on the desktop with
>Word or Adobe.

And to add to this you can create ZIP files that are fully compatible
with normal "PC" zip (e.g. winzip and others), and that does all the
conversion from EBCDIC to ASCII.

Frederico Fonseca
ema il: frederico_fonseca at syssoft-int.com