On Wednesday January 17, 2001, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
> Just got a encoded file
>
> From: "ESoftFinder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Members" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: January newsletter
>
> I do not know ESoft, at least I cannot remember them and I do not expect a
> newsletter. A virus? a worm?
> Cannot uuencode this bas64 file so I do not know what is in it ;-(.
> On a DOS only system you can of course play around with it ;-).
> Somebody wants to take a look?
Base64, the MIME standard, is much more common than
uuencode. For those occasions when your mail reader is
unable to automagically decode a message it's useful to
have an app for doing it manually. In DOS, "mpack" is
straightforward, easy to use and available on simtelnet.
R.
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