Subject: Q: How to read "Base64 attached" message

From: Gras Regis <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 10:57:28 +0100

I received a mail with 5 attachements, and pine can't read them
When I tried to see the message with elm, I saw:

--==_19951106192553_6069
Content-Type: application/octet-stream; charset="us-ascii";
name="COMPUTER.COM"
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="COMPUTER.COM"
Content-Description: COMPUTER.COM
Content-Transfer-Encoding: Base64

Q29tcHV0ZXIgQ29tbXVuaWNhdGlvbnMgSSAtLSBXaWRlIEFyZWEgTmV0d29ya3MNCkNvdXJz
ZSBjb2RlDQpNb2R1bGVzIDENClByZXJlcXVpc2l0ZSBjb3Vyc2UocykgIG5vbmUNClRlYWNo
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

What is Base64? How to decode it ?

When I tried to use the view attachment of pine "it" said
 [VIEWER Result: xdvi.exe: DVI file doesn't start with preamble]

Can somebody please help me by explaining how to read this mail ?

*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*
* Regis Gras                               |     Tel (33) 76 82 62 60       *
* Laboratoire CEPHAG                       |     ou  (33) 76 82 64 26       *
* ENSIEG, Rue de la Houille Blanche BP 46  |     Fax (33) 76 82 63 84       *
* 38402 Saint Martin d'Heres CEDEX, France | e-mail [email-masked]*
*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 08:17:52 -0800 (PST)

I suspect you have a malformed MIME-gram... probably the
"Mime-Version: 1.0" header is missing.

If that's the case, you can either save the message to a folder and
manually edit it to add the above header, then use Pine to read it, or you
can try using CMU's munpack program on it, which I think will try to
figure things out even if the MIME header is missing.

-teg