HW: Gig list
Martyn White
white at BORG.MED.ECU.EDU
Tue Jan 21 11:44:46 EST 1997
I had asked:
> I am running a workstation (digital unix 2.0). How do
> I process the file that Bernhard just posted??
Ken replied:
>If you've got a mime-complaint mail reader program, then it should have
>allowed you to process the encoded data and save it to a file.
>If you don't, then you can possibly run the data through a separate
>decoder program, such as piping it through 'metamail'. If you have
>no such program, then you might be able to download one. If you can't
>find one, then you're toast.
>
>After this, you're left with a ZIP file. Use the 'unzip' program to
>unzip it. If you don't have unzip, you can probably download it.
>If you can't find it, then you're toast.
AAAAAARRGGHHHHH. I'm toast. I find this sort of thing
really annoying. Surely the files aren't _that_ big such that this
kind of encoding is necessary before they are posted.
PLEASE READ
* I propose that we make a rule on this list that all posts
*are operating system independent. Not everbody likes microsoft!
Martyn
More information about the boc-l
mailing list