Sending an executable file via Outlook

Dr.Walt Fair, PE

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24 Dec 2010CPOL

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I've renamed files to *.ex_ and they seem to be accepted by Outlook. As a last resort, I zip the *.ex_ and then send the zip. The same thing happens with *.msi (renamed to *.ms_) and other files recognized as containing executables.

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Dr.Walt Fair, PE

Engineer Comport Computing

United States

I am a software developer specializing in technical and numerical software systems and also a PhD Petroleum Engineer.
I started programming in IBM 1620 machine code in 1967, then FORTAN on CDC mainframes mainframes in 1970. I later used ALGOL, BASIC, FORTH, Pascal,Prolog, C, F#, C#, etc.
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Sending an executable file via Outlook

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