[rollei_list] Re: "MIME encoding" (was: TEST, deciphered)

  • From: Emilio Perea <eperea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:09:52 -0500

On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 12:20:05PM +0200, bigler@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> To decipher by hand
> 
> - save text to a file or keep in an emacs buffer
> - apply the unix command : 
> mimencode -u 
> to it or the following emacs command
> (shell-command-on-region (region-beginning) (region-end) "mimencode -u" nil 
> nil nil)
 
% mimencode -u outfile
mimencode: Command not found.

% apropos mime
Encode::MIME::Header (3p) - MIME 'B' and 'Q' header encoding
MIME::Base64 (3p) - Encoding and decoding of base64 strings
MIME::QuotedPrint (3p) - Encoding and decoding of quoted-printable strings
mpack (1) - pack a file in MIME format
munpack (1) - unpack messages in MIME or split-uuencode format

% munpack outfile
Did not find anything to unpack from outfile

%

> Ahem.. you don't use unix or linux ? never heard about emacs ? eh, kid
> me not : is this REALLY possible ? ;-);-)
 
It is REALLY possible, but not true in this case.  My normal OS is
OpenBSD, although I use a couple of SCO OSR5 and AIX machines at work.
My only experience with emacs was with Microsoft's "me" editor quite a
while ago.  Life's too short to bother with emacs!  Vivat vi! :-)

Seriously, doesn't mimencode produce headers that allow other programs
to decode its output?

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