Subject: Re: Making pine accept binhex attachments?
To: The Great Mr. Kurtz [David A. Gatwood] <davagatw@mars.utm.edu>
From: Monroe Williams <monroe@teleport.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 05/15/1996 16:01:48
At 12:34 PM 5/15/96, "The Great Mr. Kurtz [David A. Gatwood]" <davagatw@mars.utm.edu 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.

Um...  Eudora can send attachments as "text/plain" just fine.  Just 
uncheck the "always include Macintosh information" icon at the top of 
the message window, and make sure the included file has type 'TEXT' (as 
most pure text files will already have).

-- monroe