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From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
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To: Mucho Attitudo <flaq@synwork.com>
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On Tue, 30 Apr 1996, Mucho Attitudo wrote:

> I had a file mailed to me and instead of being attached, it was included 
> in the text of the message.  I need to save this file as a tar.gz.  Is 
> this possible?

In what format?  

If it's uuencoded:

(E)xport the message to a file.
$ uudecode message.txt

That should extract your file.

If it's MIMEd:

You need a MIME decode utility.  I don't know of any offhand.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major