Help this poor newbie, please.

In article <3aeakv$o2...@netnews.upenn.edu>, luk...@blue.seas.upenn.edu (Jarid
B Lukin) wrote:

> HI!  I am new to this internet thing, so please have patience.  I am 
> trying to figure out how I can go about viewing some these encoded 
> pictures.  I have looked at the utilities newgroup and I'm still quite 
> confused.  I am semi-computer literate, so if someone could either e-mail 
> or post ***step by step*** instructions as to how I go about getting a 
> conversion program and how I go about converting and viewing the files, I 
> would really appreciate it.  Thanks in advance.
> 
> Jarid Lukin
> luk...@eniac.seas.upenn.edu

Erm, the same applies for me, really.

GER20.CAM.AC.UK

ger...@cam.ac.uk wrote:
: In article <3aeakv$o2...@netnews.upenn.edu>, luk...@blue.seas.upenn.edu (Jarid
: B Lukin) wrote:

: > HI!  I am new to this internet thing, so please have patience.  I am
: > trying to figure out how I can go about viewing some these encoded
: > pictures.  I have looked at the utilities newgroup and I'm still quite
: > confused.  I am semi-computer literate, so if someone could either e-mail
: > or post ***step by step*** instructions as to how I go about getting a
: > conversion program and how I go about converting and viewing the files, I
: > would really appreciate it.  Thanks in advance.

Ok, I assume that you work at UNIX, otherwise contact me (personally)
by e-mail address vad...@cs.huji.ac.il.
So, first, you must save the pictures to a file.  If the picture is in
more than one article, save them to many files and merge them,
deleting all the headers and stuff.

After that, you must uudecode them, something like: "uudecode
picture.uu".

Now, you can view these pictures by xv, or whatever.

: Erm, the same applies for me, really.

You both are welcome.

All the best,