[lug] Decoding Base64

[Wayde Allen]

On Fri, 5 May 2000, Walter Pienciak wrote:

> 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)
> 
> 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.

It was already installed on my system so that was painless.  Worked like a
charm!

Thanks,

- Wayde
  (wallen at boulder.nist.gov)