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John W. Chluski wrote:

> Tom,
> The primary problem will involve choosing a format that only a few people
> will be able to use.  If the diagrams are going to be of a stick type nature
> I would suggest using something very basic and ubiquitous such as Paintbrush
> by Microsoft as it is bundled with Windows.  Unfortunately, Netcom's e-mail
> program will not allow you to attach different file types to your e-mail
> (last version that I saw).  If you need assistance on posting that info let
> me know.
> Regards, John
[snip]

I assume you mean: ... that _NOT_ only a few ... etc.

I'd say it doesn't really matter what format you choose, as long as it doesn't
exceed
the capabilities of the average PC that most people have, and has some sort of
compression in it to keep 'download' time as short as possible. Especially in
the case
of diagrams, where you have large areas of the same color, compression will do
an
amazing job. The GIF format is very common, but I know some copyright shit has
arisen lately. If it aren't scanned in photo's, JPEG is almost useless, and
besides,
you'd need a true-color graphics card to appreciate it (which is still not very
common).

About Netcom's e-mail program: although I'm not familiar with it, I know most
programs
have some way of loading an existing (text) file for mailing. Assuming Netcom's
program
has such a capability, it's possible to convert binary files to a 'readable'
text format
and then mail them. UUENCODE is a utility program that does this. Although it
originates
from the Unix platform, it's available for most other platforms as well. There
are some
very fancy (public domain/shareware) versions for Windows around (like
Wincode). 
This UUENCODE conversion is also the common format in the usenet binary
newsgroups
(such as alt.binaries.pictures).

Regards,
  Paul.

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