On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 10:00:23AM -0800, Osamu Aoki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I am wondering what is the most efficient way to read mail archive
> in web page on which attachment is attached in a form of
> "application/octet-stream".
>
> In case of Mutt reding mail, it saves attachment after decoding,
> so I never needed to use uudecode manually. When I manually
> decoded those web page previously, I had to edit web page and
> add a starting line to run uudecode. Is this right way?
"Application/octet-stream" means "I don't know what this is other than
to say that it's a bunch of bytes". In particular, it doesn't say it's
uuencoded; if anything, it leans toward *not* being uuencoded, since
the "standard" 7-bit encoding for 8-bit data in MIME is Base64.
-Rich
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