[H-GEN] extracting files
James McPherson
jmcphers at laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au
Tue Jun 1 21:11:23 EDT 1999
(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs James McPherson <jmcphers at laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au>)
Paul Gearon writes:
> (Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Paul Gearon <pag at tams.com.au>)
>
> I've just realised that I deleted a file from my system that I really need.
> Fortunately I had emailed it to someone using netscape. Unfortunately I'm
> not on that computer, so I con't run netscape to find it.
>
> Anyway, I got the "Sent" file that netscape uses, and I've found the file I
> need in the middle of a mail message. The mime header looks like this:
>
> --------------DF6E2EEAA06021CE7539733C
> Content-Type: application/octet-stream;
> name="X-X-doc"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> Content-Disposition: attachment;
> filename="X-X-doc"
>
> Does anyone know what I can use to extract this file?
>
try cutting out the base64 stuff and then use
/usr/bin/mmencode -d -o filename inputfilename
cheers,
James
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