Subject: Re: Making pine accept binhex attachments?
To: The Great Mr. Kurtz [David A. Gatwood] <davagatw@mars.utm.edu>
From: David Brownlee <david@mono.org>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 05/15/1996 22:32:19
	There is a package called xbin which decodes binhex files
	I think http://www.mcad.edu/Guests/EricB/xplat.comp.html should
	have some relevant info.

	You sure he can't just 'read in' a text file into the current
	message? :)

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On Wed, 15 May 1996, The Great Mr. Kurtz [David A. Gatwood] wrote:

> 
> Okay, here's a weird problem.  I regularly get email related to a web site
> I'm doing the HTML work for, some of it is simple messages about the site,
> some of it is messages from the prof, who sends me link lists.
> Unfortunately, he sometimes sends them in Eudora.  Now, it's a real pain
> in the butt to deal with Eudora includes because it can't include as ascii
> text, only as binhex.  Since the files inside are usually straight ASCII
> text, I'm looking for a way to decode them on the unix side, preferrably
> as an add-on to pine.
> 
> Otherwise, I have to drive over to campus, run Eudora over there, then
> upload them back to my account with Fetch.  I can't upload from off campus
> because of a problem with my modem (see also, projects to take care of
> over the summer).
> 
> Any suggestions for binhex tools unix-side?  (I'll be sure to put them up
> as binaries on puma if I get any responses.)
> 
> TIA,
> 
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