On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, user list wrote: > Thanks very much for the reply.
You're welcome. > The file is powerpoint. I thought so from the ppt extension. > I will try your first suggestion since a. I don't know perl (yet?) and > b. I know nothing of base64 encoding. This is straight from the documentation (see perldoc MIME::Base64): perl -MMIME::Base64 -ne 'print decode_base64($_)' < <your_file> With this you shouldn't have any problem decoding the file. HTH Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]