Subject: Re: How do you do MIME Attachments?

From: Don Sugarman <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 11:31:17 -0500 (EST)

On Mon, 13 Mar 1995, Jason Haar wrote:

> 
> This is a MIME message. Your mailer doesn't appear to understand MIME format.
> You will need to read this message with a MIME mailer in order to appreciate
> its full beauty.
Jason's script looks like it will be a big help to many of us who would 
like to make file distributions automatically.

I would like to add that not all users will be able to get access to a 
MIME mailer and that munpack can be used to decode saved, MIMEd files.

I can't say for sure where to find mpack/munpack, although I think I got 
mine at an ftp server at cmu.edu.

Don Sugarman
[email-masked]

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From: John Gardiner Myers <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 14:32:35 -0500

Mpack and munpack are utilities for encoding and decoding
(respectively) binary files in MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail
Extensions) format mail messages.  For compatibility with older forms
of transferring binary files, the munpack program can also decode
messages in split-uuencoded format.  The Macintosh version can also
decode messages in split-BinHex format.

In short, munpack is the MIME equivalent of uudecode/binhex.

Versions are included for unix, pc, os2, mac, amiga and archimedes
systems.  The canonical FTP site for this software is
ftp.andrew.cmu.edu:pub/mpack/

All official distributions of mpack 1.5 are PGP signed by
John Gardiner Myers <[email-masked]>