Hi all,

This probably a minuscule bug for most of you...  But if
you downloaded large binary files using www4mail that get
splitted, this could be a catch.

If you use Arachne (Mailman?) to extract MIME-encoded binary,
the result will have an extra byte appended (just a single
byte contains usually 00h).  The resulted file size is off
course 1 byte larger than what it supposed to be.  This
shouldn't be a problem if the file is complete, but causing
trouble if the file is part of pieces that should be
concatenated (i.e. using COPY /B) -- as the concatenated
file will choke pkunzip, or any other inflater you use...

The same problem doesn't exist with UUdecoded files.  Larger
UUencoded attachments, however, tends to get extracted as
empty file, or not extracted at all (the later is noticeable
in Arachne 1.6x only, doesn't exist in older versions).

--Eko
http://escribe.com/computing/opdif/


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