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On Sun, 09 Mar 1997 21:26:29 GMT, dv@who.net (David Virtser) wrote:

>On Sun, 09 Mar 1997 14:53:18 GMT, cyrus@bluewin.ch (Helpme!) wrote:
>
>>I'm using FreeAgent v1.1 to read news messages. I'm able to decode
>>binary attachments. But I'm not able to decode non-binary attachments,
>>i.e. JPEGs that are encoded with Base64 or uuencoded. Who can tell me
>>how to decode THESE attachments with FreeAgent?????? If I try it the
>>way I do with binary attachments, it doesn't work because FreeAgent
>>tells me that it has not found any binary attachments. The only thing
>>I can see are these unreadable letters I also see before decoding
>>binary attachments?? Who can solve this problem???
>Press Ctrl-D to undecode.
>I succeeded to uuencode files this way, but didn't succeed to undecode
>the Base64 coding method. ;(
>
>When you see a Base64 message, you can simply save it to a file and
>after that to decode the file with an external Base64 decoder.

That's the problem I run across.  How do you know if a message is
Base64 without manually retrieving it?  If you try to retrieve it
using the 'Launch Binary Attachments' key, and it is an Base64
message, the message is not saved.  All you get is a no binary
attachments found message.

	-Steven