might want to visit the 'munpack' command
On Sun, 31 Mar 2002, Paul Braman wrote:
>
> On Sun, 31 Mar 2002, Robin 'Roblimo' Miller wrote:
>
> > 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.)
> >
> > --------------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
> >
> > <snip>
>
> Just doing a "locate base64" on my machine turns up a few hints, but
> really this is a standard MIME encoding format. This list had a few
> commands given to fix this a bit ago, something like "
>
> Just did a "locate mime" and there's a command called "mimencode" on my
> distribution.
>
> Ergo, should be easy to fix...just locate and run a command or three.
>
>
> Paul Braman
> aeon@tampabay.rr.com
>
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