Subj : Re: Atari 400; meh.
To   : Geri Atricks
From : Nightfox
Date : Sun Aug 06 2023 12:18:07

  Re: Re: Atari 400; meh.
  By: Geri Atricks to Nightfox on Sat Aug 05 2023 10:14 pm

 Ni>> One thing you could do is upload the photos to a hosting site (such as
 Ni>> Imgur, for instance) and copy & paste links here.

Yeah, I usually use a URL shortener for things like that.  But some web hosting sites (like Imgur) have links that are already fairly short and don't need to be shortened.

 GA> And then run that link through something like tinyurl, some terminal
 GA> programs (like syncterm) won't let me highlight a link to be able to
 GA> copy/paste it. So the shorter the URL the better.

Shortening the link does make it easier, but it's not impossible to copy & paste a link that's too long.  Often it gets line-wrapped, so you just have to copy all the lines, then paste it into a text editor and put them all together into a single line.

 GA> There is also the old option of uuencoding the image and then posting the
 GA> text block for the other end to uudecode back into the image.

But then someone would need to copy & paste the uuencoded text into something and run a program to decode it..  It would be easier to just post a link to the photo.

Nightfox
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