On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 01:42:09PM -0800, Osamu Aoki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Thanks Rich, but uudecode does Base64 at least on Debian system.
>
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 12:59:29PM -0500, Rich Lafferty wrote:
> > "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.
>
> Problem was I needed to add a line before successfully decoding
> my Base64 coded text to binary. I was looking for better/automatic
> command line scheme.
Right, but keep in mind that "application/octet-stream" doesn't mean
it's base64, either. All it means is that the sending agent had
absolutely no information about the content at all other than that it
was not 7-bit text.
-Rich
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