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Subject: Re: BASE64 decoding ?
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In article <01HD97V8U1PU8WW07T@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu>, Ragdol <LANT%ALBANY.BITNET@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu> writes:
>>Some time ago I got a mail that was BASE64 coded, presumably
>>on a VMS machine. Something in the header menthioned MIME.
> 
>>There's a program called munpack that will do the job. It compiles
>>under VAX C with a couple of changes.
> 
>>ftp.andrew.cmu.edu:/pub/mpack
> 
> To add my 2 cents...  I have the same problem.  I was kind of hoping this would
> come up.  But what do you do if you don't have VAX C?  Again, I will take any
> software for VMS, UNIX, or DOS.
> 
For DOS:

 Try anonymous ftp to thumper.bellcore.com
 file /pub/nsb/mm2.7.dos.zip  (or something very similar).

For VMS/Unix  (requires a C compiler, but other people may be interested)

 Same place
 file /pub/nsb/mm2.7.tar.Z  (or something similar)

In these kits, the piece you want is mmencode.exe

On VMS, it is used as:

	$ mmencode == "$disk:[directory]mmencode.exe"
	$ mmencode -u -b filename [-o outfile]
                    ^  ^
                    |  Base64
                    Decode          

On Unix or DOS, it's used the same way, but you don't need to define
the foreign command.  Instead, you just make sure the executable is in
your path.

Other options are -q for "QUOTED-PRINTABLE" encoding/decoding.

	John Briggs			briggs@vitro.com