[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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