Re: CODED Message: begin 666 body0001.bin

Anton Freijsen (A.G.J.A.Freysen@net.HCC.nl)
Sun, 25 Aug 1996 14:02:18 +0200

>>
>> begin 666 body0001.bin
>> MV24M
>> ..... binary code until the word
>> end
>
>It's actually ASCII code, but anyway. . . .
>That's uucode, a method of sending binary files in email as ASCII.
>
>If it's in a newsgroup, you can just hit 'B' and it will decode it. If
>you got it in the mail, I don't know (I'm actually using Pine right now).

Thank you for your answer, Jon, normal MIME didn't do it, nor did (I thought)
"B" it, after your answer I tried "B" again to decode the MAIL and it didn't
seem to work, again I got the message "body0001.bin done" without seeing
something appearing on the HD.
Then I looked with the program WHEREIS to find the body0001.bin and yes,
it was put in my e:\tcpip\news directory.
It still had code in it although more readable ASCII, so I tried to read it
with the DESCRIBE wordprocessor, and it was imported as a "word for windows
2.x " file.

Thank you again,

Anton

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