Re: octet-stream ??

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From: Tony Cook
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 1996 00:00

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Paul Wyborn (cs308340@student.uq.edu.au) wrote:
: Would anybody know how I can read an 'octet-stream' attachment that
: is part of a mail message I received. It looks like a UUENCODEd sort
: of scheme. I mean all ASCII.

: The man page for pine say it uses MIME formats, but obviously not
: this one.

: Any help appreciated. Thanks.

The 'application/octet-stream' type simply means the mailer didn't
recognize the format of the data.

If you know what the data really is, export it and use a viewer for
it.

-- 
        Tony Cook - tony@online.tmx.com.au
                    100237.3425@compuserve.com

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Date: 1996/07/01
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