From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 11 11:54:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA01525 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 11:54:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA01517 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 11:53:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id LAA02529; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 11:51:48 -0700 Message-Id: <199604111851.LAA02529@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.5 12/11/95 To: John Polstra cc: djr@saa-cons.co.uk, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Base-64 decoder (was: Solaris2.5 and BSD* - Facts) In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 11 Apr 1996 08:03:23 PDT." <199604111503.IAA17355@austin.polstra.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 11:51:47 -0700 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk metamail which is available in the ports directory provides a base64 encoder/decoder. exmh a tcl/tk has a cool interface for mh/metamail/pgp/glimpse. Cheers, Amancio >>> John Polstra said: > Dave Roberts asked: > > > ObOffTopic: anyone know a tool to to base64 decoding? Some of my > > users get their mail sent to ccMail, and their gateway doesn't > > understand MIME. A DOS util to do with would be great (I can't > > convert *everyone* to Unix and Pine! ;) > > You might try the "mpack" package. In includes a program named > "munpack", which will decode base-64 as well as uuencoded stuff. It is > available for lots of platforms, including Unix, DOS, OS/2, Mac, and > Amiga. Take a look in: > > ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/mpack/ > > -- > John Polstra jdp@polstra.com > John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA > "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth >