In article ,
BobS wrote:
He didn't if you bothered to look.

"Did too!"

His attachment were two shortcuts - not
binary files Nanny....

"No, No, Nanette" applies.

1) a 'binary' file is anything that is *not* "human-readable", plain-text
ASCII
2) by definition this includes _anything_ that has been "uuencoded", and/or
"MIME base64" encoded.
3) a MS-WINDOWS ".lnk" file *IS* a 'binary' file.
4) posting 'binaries' to a TEXT news-group -- unless that group has an
*express* exemption in the newsgroup 'charter' -- *IS* considered an
'abuse' of the posting privilege.
5) The posted _binaries_ appear to be "pointers" to a different location
on his *local*hard*disk*. And, as such, are utterly _useless_ to anyone
without access to HIS computer.

_Whatever_ it was that the original ("bozo"-mode) poster was trying to
accomplish, he failed to do so.

As for you, "Everyone has the inalienable right to be wrong", and you were,
obviously, merely engaged in exercising that right.

"Dave Hinz" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 21:07:32 GMT, neal.don wrote:
Here are two project that I have completed out of solid oak a book case
and
a bathroom cabinet


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M_7T=IL/$`=-6`````````0```````````````````!\"% `?4.!/T"#J.FD0

Please don't post binaries to a text-based discusiosn group.