HW: Gig list

[J Strobridge]

Martyn White writes:

> 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.



heh!  I'm in this position too although I do at least have access to
a pc address as well.   I assume though that most large files are made
up under pc wordprocessing packages these days and don't translate into
ascii email very well without encoding.

But I could be wrong!

jill

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