Re: [SLUG] Convert ASCII to binary?

From: Brian Coyle (brian@linuxwidows.com)
Date: Sun Mar 31 2002 - 12:10:27 EST


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On Sunday 31 March 2002 11:02, Robin 'Roblimo' Miller wrote:
> 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.)

Heh-heh! Following Linus' advice, eh (real men use the Internet to backup)?

This line of the attachment is key:

> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

Save the attachment and run uudecode against it.

Your 'User-Agent' indicates you're using Mozilla 5.0/Gecko. Not sure,
but that might recognise the base64 automatically. Have you tried to save
the attachment from the MUA?

HTH!

- --
Redundancy? You can say that again!
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