On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 10:55:02 -0500 "Ronald J. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Friday 27 December 2002 10:29 am, you wrote: > > > > Base64 seems to be a fairly widespread method of encoding binary data > > (such as images) in the form of ASCII text for inclusion in a message > > or transmission over media which do not support binary transfers. > > In the old days when floppies were used a lot to transfer files such > > encoding schemes made it easier to break up very large files and > > stitch them together again after transfer. The UNIX utilities > > uudecode and uuencode were employed to handle these data files but to > > decode some manipulation of the files was required. My notes > > recommend inserting the line: > > > > begin-base64 644 <filename> > > > > before the encoded text and ==== immediately after it. I know that > > has worked in the past but when I tried "begin-base64 644 oig.jpg" > > in your mail message, ran "uudecode oig", and invoked qiv on oig.jpg, > > a corrupt JPEG was reported, missing header byte or something. The > > uudecode command should work. The man page for uudecode claims that > > the utility can distinguish between the two main encoding schemes > > automatically - not in my experience. > > Hi. I'm running v8.2 of Mandrake and I installed a program (found during > a search for "uudecode" in the RPM/software manager) called uudeview. It > runs from the shell, uudeview and uuenview. I save base64 files to my > /home directory, then run this app on them. It works. > > I wish somebody could tell me how to pass this along to Kmail so it uses > it automatically on these files. :-) > > Hope this helps (at least as a temp. fix) :-) If you get a lot of these attachments, Sylpheed has the capability to add actions. See http://melvin.hadasht.free.fr/home/sylpheed/actions/. Just one more reason I prefer Sylpheed :) Todd
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