Subject: Attachments in body

From: Ed Down <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 17:50:48 +0000 (GMT)

I have some MSWord files included as part of the body of an email I have
recieved. I want to, ultimately, convert these to html and am considering
the rtftohtml package, but I want to get the attachments out of the email 
first. Any one help. I'm working on Sparc and Linux machines.

PS. I've spent an unfruitful hour studying the archives of this list and
pine FAQ's...

Ed

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 19 Nov 1997 19:58:41 +0100

>> "ED" == Ed Down <[email-masked]> writes:

ED> I have some MSWord files included as part of the body of an
ED> email I have recieved. I want to, ultimately, convert these to
ED> html and am considering the rtftohtml package, but I want to get
ED> the attachments out of the email first. Any one help.

Save to file, install Applix Office or Star Office, open, convert,
done.

So much for theory... Better: have the person resend the mail as rtf
or html, or even ascii - that'll be much quicker. Otherwise, there's
always trusty old "strings" and a couple of word2something converters,
only one of which I've more or less successfully used. I don't have
www access right now, but I've put a couple of converter links on a
page of my LUG (it's German, so it might be "Konverter"):

     <bolug.uni-bonn.de/linux.bonn.xemacs.html>

or go to CTAN directly.

ED> I'm working on Sparc and Linux machines.

Good ;-)

Later,
Robin

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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 13:02:33 -0600 (CST)

>From: Ed Down <[email-masked]>
>Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 17:50:48 +0000 (GMT)

>first. Any one help. I'm working on Sparc and Linux machines.

While reading the message, use the v (view) command to get an index of all
attachments. (Many plain text attachments can be viewed.)

Choose the attachment you want to save, and s (save) to a file. If it is
already named, you can keep the original name.

Attachments can also be piped to other processes.