[clug] Ever received a .dat file from an <other OS> user?

Neill Cox neill.cox at ingenious.com.au
Fri Jan 15 01:08:03 MST 2010


Well, *I* didn't know that - thank you!

Cheers,
Neill

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Andrew Janke <a.janke at gmail.com> wrote:

> Or worse multiple .dat files split across a few messages?
>
> And then went digging all over the web trying to find something that
> will decode something looking like this:
>
> ---
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
>        boundary="DC_BOUND_PRE_<1263538550.000074e0ca36>"
>
> This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
> --DC_BOUND_PRE_<12635380.0074e0ca36>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
> Scan Date: 15.01.2010 14:55:50 (+0800)
> --DC_BOUND_PRE_<1263538550.000074e0ca36>
> Content-Type: application/pdf; name="20100115145550430.pdf"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> Content-Disposition: attachment;
>        filename="20100115145550430.pdf"
>
> JVBERi0xLjQKJRamipIKNCAwIG9iago8PC9UeXBlL1hPYmplY3QKL1N1YnR5cGUvSW1hZ2UK
> L1dpZHRoIDI0ODAKL0hlaWdodCAzNTA4Ci9CaXRzUGVyQ29tcG9uZW50IDEKL0NvbG9yU3Bh
> ---
>
> Well I just did (and have had this issue in the past but never found a
> solution as base64 and uudecode don't do what you'd think) then I
> found mpack/munpack..
>
>   $ sudo apt-get install mpack
>
>   $ cat part\ ?_?.dat | munpack
>   munpack: reading from standard input
>   20100115145550430.pdf (application/pdf)
>
> Ahhh..
>
>
> (Brought to you by the "things I didn't know but I'm sure others all
> know this already" series of emails as I don't have a linux blog.)
>
>
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