From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 1 17:57:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA13202 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 1 May 1996 17:57:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vent.pipex.net (root@vent.pipex.net [158.43.128.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA13190 for ; Wed, 1 May 1996 17:57:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dial.pipex.com by vent.pipex.net (8.6.12/PIPEX simple 1.20) id BAA27753; Thu, 2 May 1996 01:57:10 +0100 Received: (from jraynard@localhost) by dial.pipex.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA02029; Wed, 1 May 1996 23:37:54 GMT Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 23:37:54 GMT From: James Raynard Message-Id: <199605012337.XAA02029@dial.pipex.com> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu CC: flaq@synwork.com, questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: (message from Doug White on Wed, 1 May 1996 11:13:15 -0700 (PDT)) Subject: Re: Pine Question Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> Doug White writes: > > 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. Just install the mpack ports/package and then 'munpack filename'. James -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland