munpack -t <filespec>
and deposited the product in my current directory. So I shall now
install it in the Yarn [OS/2] config and hope I never get another MIME
message <g>.
Rafe
R. R. Ronkin
rronkin@cpcug.org
In article <6c7AyY5faJYE091yn@i-link.net>,
LabRat@i-link.net (Michael Gray) wrote:
>In article <+yh/xYI7xJkZ091yn@cpcug.org>,
>rronkin@cpcug.org (R. R. Ronkin) wrote:
>>I received a 500 kB message from a friend; it was encoded to ASCII
>>garbage and Yarn did not decode it. An extract of the message header
>>follows:
>> <el snippo>
>>I suspected the problem was lack of metamail or similar software. So I
>>downloaded the os/2 version of metamail.zip and tried to execute
>>metamail.exe, only to be told the system couldn't find the program file
<more snip>
>Since you referred to EMX, I am assuming you're using OS/2. The
>versions of metamail I tried worked fine, but choked on multi-part
>binaries. Someone here on the list recommended munpack. I got it
>locally, but look on Hobbes or do an archie search for it. It works
>well most of the time, but it writes to the home directory rather than
>the default directory set in your config.
>