Re: eml attached file problem

[Bob Hilliard <bob@bobhilliard.net>]

uuenview/uudeview (from the uudeview package) will code/decode
base 64 and a number of other formats.

Bob

"David B. Harris" <dbarclay10@yahoo.ca> writes:

> 
> To quote Erdmut Pfeifer <e.pfeifer@science-computing.de>,
> # Copy these lines into a file, e.g. "base64dec.pl", make it executable
> # and call it like this
> # 
> # base64dec.pl in.base64 >out.gif
> # 
> # "in.base64" is your chunk of cryptic-looking data you're having
> # problems with. It should consist of the part *between* the separator
> # lines (there should be two identical lines, one above the "Content-*"
> # lines and one below the data block) -- use an editor to cut out the
> # block in between.
> # 
> # If everything works as expected you should be left with your image
> # file. If not, let me know.
> 
> Oooohhhh... Thank you :)
> 
> Thank you thank you :)
> 
> I've been on a few lists, where patches were posted and I promptly
> lost(hard drive failure a few months ago). Nobody could find the patches
> themselves, either. :(
> 
> There are archives of these lists, but attachments are in-lined, and I
> couldn't figure out how to extract them(even manually!). I tried perl(I
> don't know very much), but no luck.
> 
> This is exactly what I was looking for :)
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Dave