On 16 Mar 1999q, J.H.M. Dassen wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 19:02:57 +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I sometimes get email with docs attached in base64 - presumably some > > Windows format? > > No. Email isn't guaranteed to be 8-bit clean in general; thus, binaries need > to be encoded to ensure they don't get mangled. Base64 is one of the > encodings used in MIME (Multimedia Internet Mail Extensions). > > > Is there any way to read this in linux? > > Most email clients (for example mutt, elm-me+) support it. If you want to > process it manually, get a tool like metamail or mpack. > > HTH, > Ray
Thanks to all who kindly replied on this. I do have mutt but not the mime decode stuff. I guess this is my problem, so I'm now installing it. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.0 (Windows-free zone) Book Reviews: www.achc.demon.co.uk/bookreviews/index.html "The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on..." - Edward Fitzgerald (Rubaiat of Omar Khayyam)
