Memories

Carter Jefferson
1.  One way is by using "attachments." Every e-mail
program has a way to do this--usually a "browse" box
where you can find the file on your hard drive and just
click on whatever you want to attach.

There is a big problem with this, though.
Attachments of things written on word processors can
carry viruses from your machine to anybody who
opens an attachment you send. That being the case,
many people won't open attachments from anybody.
After all, even your friends may not know they are
carrying viruses in their computers. Plain text files
(with the extension .txt) cannot carry viruses.

2. The best way, therefore, is to paste "text" files into
your e-mail message window and send those. If you do
that, you lose all the gimmickry your word processor
likes to put in, including italics, underlines, and bold
type. So you use *asterisks*, like that, or _underlines_,
like that, for italics, and don't worry about bold.

To send text files, do this. First, make sure your e-mail
sending instructions are set for "plain text" and not
HTML. Then save your manuscript in your word
processor. Then save another copy of it as a text file.

a. Do that by clicking "Save as," and then "Save as
type." You'll see a list of choices.
b. Click on "text," "plain text," or "ASCII text,"
whichever you're offered.
c.  Close the file you just saved.
d.  Set your "open file" box to "all files."
e.  Open the file with the right name on it, but with a
".txt" extension. Not .doc, .wpd, .wks, or anything
else.
f.   Put your mouse pointer at the beginning of the text
you want to send.
g.  Click the left mouse button, and hold it down.
h.  While holding that button down, move the pointer to
the end of what you want to copy, and then let up on the
button. All the stuff you want to send should be in white
type on a black background.
i.  Click on "edit" at the top of your screen.
j.  Click on "copy."
k. Now open your e-mail window.
l.  Put the mouse pointer at the upper left corner of the
message window, and click to make sure the "I" cursor
is in that place.
k. Click on "edit," and then click on "paste." What you
want to send should appear immediately in the message
window.
l.  Write whatever message you want to send with the
ms. at the top of mail window.
m. Look carefully to see that the text is complete, and
make sure there are linespaces between paragraphs.
n. Make sure the address on the e-mail is correct, and
click "send."

There's an easier way.  Take steps "a" through "h,"
and then:
o.  Put the mouse pointer on a black part of the
manuscript. Click on the right mouse button. A box
will appear. Click on copy.
p. When you move to the e-mail window, put the pointer
where you want the manuscript to start, and click on
the right button of the mouse. When the box appears,
click on "Paste."

Do not ever copy and paste from a word processor
file like a .doc file. If you do, what the recipient will get
is a mess, text full of garbage symbols. Same goes for
HTML files, only worse.






 





How to e-mail manuscripts