CE Pocket Word attachments

If you often work on documents on a Windows CE machine away from your home base, you will understand my frustration at the difficulty there is in extracting the document. I keep a diverse network of computers, and it is often inconvenient to move to the PC that I use to run CE Services. So if I have a document on a Windows CE HPC, the easiest way to transfer it is to send it by email as an attachment over Ethernet. This applies just as well if you send email from an HPC over a dial up connection.

Attachments sent over an Internet email service, which use POP3 and SMTP for transmission, are sent as uuencoded attachments. Most Internet email desktop clients can decode this format readily. Pocket Word documents, I have discovered, are almost exactly in RTF format. Instead of starting with {rtf1, Pocket Word documents start with {pwd2. Just change the leading text to the rtf document marker, and you have an instantly readable document for most word processors.

Pocket Word is almost rtf

Words and design by:
Paul Lynch
Last updated: June 8, 1998