On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 01:35, Rob Unsworth wrote: > On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Mike Burger wrote: > > > On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, Rob Unsworth wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, Chris Kloiber wrote: > > > > > > > On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 00:06, Rob Unsworth wrote: > > > > > Hi all > > > > > > > > > > I have received a couple of emails that apparently were emailed from MS > > > > > Word, with the .doc file coming as part of the email and base 64. > > > > > > > > > > Is there anything available on Linux that would allow me to read the > > > > > contents, and extract the .doc file. > > > > > > > > OpenOffice.org writer handles most .doc files just fine. > > > > > > I knew I shouldn't have done that in a hurry. This is *not* an attachment > > > as such. This is how it was received. > > > > You're fine. Since you're using Pine, just hit the > key, and it will > > list all the MIME parts. You should be able to highlight the "part" in > > question, and save it. > > Sorry Mike, apparently I am not explaining this very well. The .doc > section has come as part of the body of the email and not as an > attachment. Had it been a normal attachment I would have done as you > suggested and not had to bother anyone. > > Picture the encoded .doc section starting after this text. As far as I > have been able to figure this is from emailing a file from within MS > Word. I belive you can save the message as is and feed it through uudecode to get the attachment. I believe uudecode is smart enough to ignore the message headers and text above and below the attachemnt. It's been a *long* time. This is almost a lost art. 'man uudecode' -- Chris Kloiber -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
