On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:08:12 -0400, "cray" <cray@craytoo..com> wrote:
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>begin 644 How To Build Your Own Underground Home.pdf
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>I have several of what appears to be text files.
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>They will open with Notepad and the first line is similar to
>the first line in this msg. That is: begin.....and then a pdf file name
>then lot of gibberish to end of file
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>How do I handle these XP OS....a couple are multi megabyte size
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>Thanks for any insight.
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>Cray
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You don't want to save the message - you want to save the ATTACHMENT.
Since your Usenet program, Grabbit, has a banner telling how
wonderful it is to use with usenet binaries, it MUST have this
feature.
Usenet was set up, originally, as a discussion medium, to transmit
lines of text.
Eventually, some people decided they also wanted to transmit pictures
of nekked wimen and warez (pirated software) and other files which
were NOT lines of text. But usenet messages have to be lines of text.
So the binary files have to be converted to lines of text and then
decoded by the downloader.
Well, how do you do that? Any file is a string of numbers between 0
and 255. You could convert a file into lines of 3 digit decimal
numbers.
005,235,042,142,243,052,...
This isn't a very efficient way of turning a binary file into lines of
text. There are at least 4 common ways of doing this, uuencoding, base
64, yenc and one which is used mostly by Mac heads. Your usenet
program should be able to decode the messages back into the binary
file when you tell it to save the ATTACHMENT.
The example you gave was uuencoded and just about any program can
handle that system.
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