I have no difficulty dealing with it in Netscape on Windows - the
attachment itself is simply base64 encoded, which is certainly platform
independent. What mail client are you using?

-- Dwight 

Sean McGrath wrote:
> 
> It would be better if attachments, and their MIME types,
> were platform independent, unless their content is platform specific.
> 
> On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Andrew C. Greenberg wrote:
> [...]
>         PluggableSwitchView test"!
>     [ Part 2.1, Application/APPLEFILE  176bytes. ]
>     [ Cannot display this part. Press "V" then "S" to save in a file. ]
> 
> which my windows system does not understand.
> 
> Thank you
> 
> Sean McGrath