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b0rgel
email troubles Mark Unseen   Jul 29 22:47 UTC 2002

I got this email from a friend of mine. It was a picture of me and some
friends of mine. The problem is that she didn't send the picture as an
attachment like I asked, she just sent the picure as the email. I tried to
use pine, bueit would not show me the picture. I tried forwarding it to
another email, but that didnt work either. Does anyone knkow of a way that
I can view this picture. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in
advance.
8 responses total.
rcurl
response 1 of 8: Mark Unseen   Jul 30 00:53 UTC 2002

I save such in-ttachments to a file in my directory, edit out the
extraneous stuff, download, and open in a suitable decoding operations.
Works 5 times out of 10.
davel
response 2 of 8: Mark Unseen   Jul 30 14:10 UTC 2002

What Rane said, for the most part.  Save to a file.  Look at contents of
file for what kind of encoding is used.  If it's uuencoded, you probably
can uudecode it without editing out the other stuff.  If it's base64, you'll
probably need to (or I have needed to).

Sometimes running metamail on the file will be sufficient, too.
borgel
response 3 of 8: Mark Unseen   Jul 31 08:29 UTC 2002

Im sorry, what exactly do you mean by "suitable decoding operations"?
rcurl
response 4 of 8: Mark Unseen   Jul 31 16:42 UTC 2002

Re #3: what davel said. For example, I have a general application,
MacLinkPlus (I'm a Mac user), which has decoders for MIME, BinHex and
uuencode. I also have separate decoders for CompactPro, Stuffit, UUTool
and Zipit, some of which are free (or maybe shareware) utilities.

davel
response 5 of 8: Mark Unseen   Aug 1 17:34 UTC 2002

For MS-Win, WinZIP will decode a bunch of formats.
b0rgel
response 6 of 8: Mark Unseen   Aug 12 18:40 UTC 2002

theres nothing showing what type of encoding the picture has. Are you
referring to the header information? And I dont know if its important or not,
but when i downloaded the file to my home directory, it was significantly
smaller than the file in my pine directory. I didnt see anything else to
"edit" out either (again, unless you're referring to the header files). Thanks
for all of the replies.
twenex
response 7 of 8: Mark Unseen   Mar 14 00:55 UTC 2004

Still usin' macs, rcurl?
rcurl
response 8 of 8: Mark Unseen   Mar 14 04:57 UTC 2004

Yes - on a G4 now.
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