Re: Re: uuencoded files
- Subject: Re: [iris-photos] Re: uuencoded files
- From: J* J*
- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 22:47:16 -0800
- Content-length: 2721
Well the uuencode/decode issue is a moot point now, at least for a
while, starlord has left the list.
John
Gerry Snyder wrote:
>
> irischap wrote:
> >
> > I did some research/checking and it would appear that there
> shouldn't
> > be any problem with these files and most e-mail programs should
> > automatically read them. I initially suspected, and more so now,
> that
> > the problem is with Yahoo. If you look carefully you'll see that
> the
> > photo is a .jpg file, but it is not an attachment, but is an
> embedded
> > file. It appears that Yahoo interpreted it as an asci file and part
> of
> > the message, and embedded it. After what they did it probably can't
> be
> > easily put back together as a photo.
>
> Actually, they did make it inconvenient, but not that difficult, at
> least for someone with a program that can decode a uuencoded file.
>
> On my linux system I saved StarLord's first message as starlord.uue
> and then typed in the command
>
> uudecode -o starlord.jpg starlord.uue
>
> creating the file starlord.jpg, which displayed just fine.
>
> Gerry
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