Summary: Base 64 decoders

From: Derald McMillan (dmcmilla@homeaccount.com)
Date: Fri Mar 08 1996 - 08:41:53 CST


Thanks for the wide response to my question. There were a variety of answers.

The solution that works best for me is to use the Mail Tool that comes with
Solaris 2.x and save the file named "octet-stream" to disk. This will be
the unencoded file from the mac. There will usually be 4 files: "multipart",
"applefile","octet-stream", and "text". Only the octet-stream is useful.

The most popular suggestion was to get the mpack utility:
ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/mpack/

Pine also can handle base 64 decoding:
ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/

Also a packate of tools called macutil was mentioned:
ftp://ftp.univie.ac.at/mac/info-mac/cmp

Several other utilities were mentioned, you can use archie to find them.
munpack,uudeview (http://www.uni-frankfurt.de/~fp/uudeview),
emil, netscape2.0,hexbin,mmencode,mcvert

I'd like to thank the following for their responses:
garcia@sr5.chinalake.navy.mil (Mike Garcia)
john@nai.net
"Duane R. Larkin" <duane@cris.com>
george@wok.dbms.com (George L Roman)
Michael Blandford <mikey@lanl.gov>
Gary Lee <rgl@xdiv.lanl.gov>
David Fetrow <fetrow@biostat.washington.edu>
Jay Lessert <jayl@lattice.com>
"Kai O'Yang" <oyang@mars.fcit.monash.edu.au>
jing.zhang@ic.ac.uk
Kevin.Sheehan@uniq.com.au (Kevin Sheehan {Consulting Poster Child})
"Michael S. Fischer" <mfischer@nsi.edu>
Rachel Polanskis <rachel@juno.virago.org.au>
Christian.Masopust@emndev.siemens.co.at (Christian Masopust)
mark@ukhayq.CV.COM (Mark R. Bowyer)
D.G.Poulet@durham.ac.uk
charest@sar3.CANR.Hydro.Qc.CA (Claude Charest)

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