Hi Steffen~

I'm bringing this back on-list because I think it concerns a relevant topic.

Sometimes people send their patches as inline text so that it can be copied and pasted into a text editor from the archives. Maybe this is what you mean? (I'm not sure about the Thunderbird thing.) I think though (correct me if I'm wrong) that the archives now support zip, tar and pd files too.

Honestly, I'd appreciate it if everyone would just send their files as *.pd or *.zip or *.tar.gz bundles. This is because I never know what to name these things (usually something cruddy that makes sure that I never look at it past the first sending).

In fact, I really have seen a lot of great Pd files distributed as *.pd files or *.zip archives, that include help files too. This should be STRONGLY encouraged as the DE FACTO Pd sharing method. It makes referring to the patches so much easier, and using a help file keeps the abstraction being demonstrated in a very modular form, ready to be plopped into any of a users own creations without much work.

Just my opinion, of course.

~Kyle

On 5/10/07, Steffen stffn@dibidut.dk wrote:

Do you folks have "problems" with receiving attachments sent via a thunderbird-like client? I keep getting Pd-patches as inline text rather then attachments (only, it seams) when it's sent from a thunderbird like client - thats why i wonder.

After looking a tad more into it, it shows that the webmail client that is provided by my mail host does recognize the attachments, but my regular mail client don't. So.. it might be my client that isn't "sharp". I still wonder since it works as expected (ie pd patches are not inline in mails) when sent from other mail clients.

Best, Steffen

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