[lug] Decoding Base64

[Walter Pienciak]

On Fri, 5 May 2000, Wayde Allen wrote:

> 
> I just received a binary e-mail attachment that has been Base64 encoded.
> I'm going to have to try manually decoding this one, and was wondering if
> there are any utilities for decoding this that are normally included in a
> typical Linux distribution (uudecode, ... ?)?
> 
> Time to go read some man pages.
> 
> - Wayde
>   (wallen at boulder.nist.gov)

Hi, Wayde,

If you can install uudeview, it handles uuencoding, xxencoding, base64, and
BinHex, does multiple files at once, and handles things semi-automatically
(usually no vi sessions required).  I like it.

http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~fp/uudeview/

Walter