[lug] Recovering a Mime/base64 encoded file

[D. Stimits]

There is an option in Netscape which shows up if you right click,
"Unscramble (ROT13)" while over the email text, which might be what you
need (use the option twice to put it back the way it was if you don't
like the results). Don't know if that would work, or if you are using
Netscape.

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com

John Karns wrote:
> 
> On a few ocassions I have come across situations where I would like to
> recover a base-64 encoded file segment, but have given up.  In the latest
> case, I have a segment that begins:
> 
> --part1_62.cda3349.27e8448b_boundary
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> 
> --part1_62.cda3349.27e8448b_boundary
> Content-Type: image/jpeg; name="pic.jpg"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> Content-Disposition: inline; filename="pic.jpg"
> 
> /9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAgEASABIAAD/7RGeUGhvdG9zaG9wIDMuMAA4QklNA+0AAAAAABAASAAA
> AAEAAQBIAAAAAQABOEJJTQQNAAAAAAAEAAAAeDhCSU0D8wAAAAAACAAAAAAAAAAAOEJJTQQK
> AAAAAAABAAA4QklNJxAAAAAAAAoAAQAAAAAAAAACOEJJTQP1AAAAAABIAC9mZgABAGxmZgAG
> AAAAAAABAC9mZgABAKGZmgAGAAAAAAABADIAAAABAFoAAAAGAAAAAAABADUAAAABAC0AAAAG
> 
> [snip]
> 
> ... and ends thus:
> 
> VdirsVdirsVdirsVdirsVdirsVdirsVdirsVdirsVdirsVdirsVdirsVdirsVdirsVdirsVd
> irsVdirsVdirsVdirsVdirsVdirsVdirsVdirsVdirsVdirsVdirsVdirsVdirsVdirsVdir
> sVdirsVdirsVdirsVf/Z
> 
> --part1_62.cda3349.27e8448b_boundary--
> 
> Can anyone offer suggestions on a method to decode this to a binary (in
> this case) .jpg?
> 
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> John Karns                                              jkarns at csd.net
> 
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