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Peter Ceresole <peter@cara.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> In article <3566B412.EF4E2D3F@bengio.demon.co.uk>,
> philip <philip@bengio.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> >I have been trying to download some of the Binary multiparty files in
> >certain news groups  but am having no luck
> >Is there anyone who can tell me how to do it
[snip]

> >Im using Netscape Communicator 4.05 on my mac
> 
> It ought to work. But if it decodes automatically, note that multipart
> binaries don't always turn up in the right order.

True enough.  One way of dealing with this kind of thing is using
something like MacSoup: you can join the bits together by saving a
multi-post selection as a single file (okay if the parts are in order on
screen), or by using `Append' if not.

Once you've done that, dropping the result onto StuffitExpander (for
uuencoded stuff) or something like YA-Base64 for base 64 encoded stuff
will do the rest.

Avoiding Netscape is probably a good idea.

Rowland.

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