[SLUG] Convert ASCII to binary?

From: Robin 'Roblimo' Miller (robin@roblimo.com)
Date: Sun Mar 31 2002 - 11:02:35 EST


I have an immediate, serious problem caused by my own stupidity.

I emailed a StarOffice file to myself to back it up before screwing
with a Mandrake upgrade, knowing that I ran a significant risk of wiping
out my /home partition, which I did.

But I got my own email address wrong and the message bounced --
apparantly as ASCII. Any ideas on how to resurrect this file? It's kind
of important stuff. (Book chapter on deadline.)

Sample below; this is a huge .sdw file including graphics, etc. I can
send the whole file (off list) to anyone who wants to take a whack at
it. The obvious idea -- saving the gibberish as a text file with an .sdw
extension and opening it in StarOffice or OpenOffice -- didn't work.

- Robin

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This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
--------------040808080807000804060205
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Ch6

--------------040808080807000804060205
Content-Type: application/vnd.sun.xml.writer;
name="CH6.sxw"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: inline;
filename="CH6.sxw"

UEsDBBQAAAAAAEd8fiwHzLn1/d8FAP3fBQAtAAAAUGljdHVyZXMvMTAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDJF
ODAwMDAwNDMxMEY1NjU0MDcuanBn/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQAAAQABAAD/2wBDAAEBAQEBAQEB
AQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEB
AQH/2wBDAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEB
AQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQH/wAARCAQxAugDASIAAhEBAxEB/8QAHwAAAQUBAQEBAQEAAAAA
AAAAAAECAwQFBgcICQoL/8QAtRAAAgEDAwIEAwUFBAQAAAF9AQIDAAQRBRIhMUEGE1FhByJx
FDKBkaEII0KxwRVS0fAkM2JyggkKFhcYGRolJicoKSo0NTY3ODk6Q0RFRkdISUpTVFVWV1hZ

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