Subject: Detaching Binary files

From: Qamar Ullah Oh <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 02:20:55 +0500 (GMT+0500)

To any one who can help;
I ma very new in this world of internet. And there are many things i Don't
understand. I have pine in my home computer but my office uses another
system of E-mailing Brainnet. The problem is that when I ask my office to
send me files on my pc they attach them as binary files, and i have not
been able to figure out how to dettach them and turn them into text? Also
how can I send a binary file to my office if the file is in one of the
word processing programmes?
All help will be appreciated

S. Qamar

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From: Robin S Socha <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 22:41:56 +0100 (CET)

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On Sun, 30 Mar 1997, Qamar Ullah Oh wrote:

  >I ma very new in this world of internet. And there are many things i
  >Don't understand. I have pine in my home computer but my office uses
  >another system of E-mailing Brainnet. The problem is that when I ask my
  >office to send me files on my pc they attach them as binary files, and i
  >have not been able to figure out how to dettach them and turn them into
  >text?

You should see a message saying:

Parts/attachments:
   
   1 Shown   25 lines  Text
   2         28 KB     Application, ""

at the top of your mail, and:

  [Part 2, ""  Application/OCTET-STREAM (Name: ".tkmandatabase.gz")  38KB]
  [Cannot display this part. Press "V" then "S" to save in a file]

at the bottom. Save the message, launch the appropriate application (fdisk
for Winword documents, for example...), and you're there.          

  >Also how can I send a binary file to my office if the file is in one of
  >the word processing programmes?

Q: How can someone without Pine decipher an attachment to a message I send?
  
A: Pine uses the MIME Internet standard for attaching files to email
   messages. Any MIME-capable mailer should be able to "understand" Pine's
   attachments. If the recipient of your message with attachment does not
   have MIME-capable email software, they should be able to save the
   attachment to a file and then decode that. One freely-available program
   which can decipher a MIME attachment is munpack from Carnegie Mellon. It
   is available at:
   
	ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu//pub/mpack

As for the rest: Type either say
	
	strg+g

in the Attchmnt-field of your message, or read the pine FAQ, from which
I've drawn the above QandA. It's available from:

	Pine Information Center:  http://www.washington.edu/pine
	       
Later,
Robin

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