Date: Sat, 02 Aug 1997 21:41:33 WETDST From: Manfred Buerzele <buerzele@hlhp1.physik.uni-ulm.de> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg2924$foo@default> Subject: Re: MIME?
> How can I decode these mime files?
1. If you received these files not as cp digest but as a separate mail
then save this mail with all headers to a file and go to step 3.
2. If you received these files in a cp digest
then first you have to save only the MIME mail part to a separate file.
Then you need to re-add the following two additional lines to the mail
header that the cp listserv has stripped off:
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="---- =_NextPart_000_01BC9C32.F7CD0E40"
Herein the quoted string after the "boundary=" has to be the separator
string from the questioned mail, but with two leading "-" characters less.
3. Now you can decode the file e.g. with "munpack". See the MIME FAQ:
| 2.0 Help! I got a message in MIME format--how do I decode it?
| A minimalist MIME-reading program, munpack, is available via
| anonymous FTP to ftp.andrew.cmu.edu in the directory pub/mpack/.
| The program reads MIME messages and writes the decode parts out to
| files. Versions are available for Unix, MS-DOS, Macintosh, and
| Amiga platforms. [ See part 2 of this FAQ for information about
| the mpack tool suite. ]
| 1.3 Where can I get the comp.mail.mime FAQ?
|
| It is posted approximately monthly to the newsgroups comp.mail.mime,
| comp.answers, and news.answers. The "Expires:" field is set such
| that---on systems which honour this field---the most recent edition
| will always be in the news spool.
|
| Many sites archive news.answers postings, including
|
| FTP: rtfm.mit.edu:pub/usenet-by-group/news.answers/mail/mime-faq/*
|
| If possible, please try to find a closer site; for example, by asking
| archie for "mime-faq".
|
| If you are reading this FAQ via some fixed medium such as hardcopy or
| CD-ROM, please try to obtain the latest edition from the net instead.
Cheers,
Manfred.
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