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

  • From: Jerry Lehrer <jerryleh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 14:42:38 -0700

Emailio,

You have just won the "Jargon of the Year" award!

Jerry

Emailio Perea wrote:

> 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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