ascii attachment

From two of my email contacts I recieve the attachments in us ascii code. 
The text or video this represents is missing. Does anyone know what is 
happening?
stu 

STU wrote:
> From two of my email contacts I recieve the attachments in us ascii code. 
> The text or video this represents is missing. Does anyone know what is 
> happening?
> stu 

uuencoding ?

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In article <112...@corp.supernews.com>, Stu wrote:
> From two of my email contacts I recieve the attachments in us ascii code. 
> The text or video this represents is missing. Does anyone know what is 
> happening?
> stu
>
       Probably your news/ mail reader is not recognising the messages as 
being properly formatted UU-encoded or Base64-encoded messages. These are 
popular ways of putting binary data (images, sounds, zip files, etc) into 
email messages. Most clients get it right, but you get the occasional one 
which gets fouled up. You *might* have joy from trying to read the message 
in a different client, but it's quite possible that the problem that 
afflicts the message you're receiving will carry over to any copies you 
make.
       Often you can retrieve the data by saving the *entire* message as  
TEXT FILE, THEN TRYING TO FEED THIS INTO (bLOODY cAPSlOCK KEY!) a 
stand-alone decoding program. These have been available since the days of 
MS-DOS 2.x, if not earlier, and your local code repository should have 
numerous examples to try. Generally, I don't bother trying - my reader is 
pretty good about these things. I have a UU-decoder program, but I don't 
think that I've used it in 2 years. It's a command-line one, and I've got 
some old ( Win3.11 ? ) .PIF and .BAT files for it's care and feeding, but 
I'd have to RTFM to work out how to make it work these days.
       
-- 
Aidan Karley,
Geologist,
"You are in a maze of twisty little presentation styles, all [different | 
alike]."

Aidan Karley <aid...@mynameplus1.demon.co.uk.invalid> wrote:
>In article <112...@corp.supernews.com>, Stu wrote:
>> From two of my email contacts I recieve the attachments in us ascii code. 
>> The text or video this represents is missing. Does anyone know what is 
>> happening?
>> stu
>>
>       Probably your news/ mail reader is not recognising the messages as 
>being properly formatted UU-encoded or Base64-encoded messages. These are 
>popular ways of putting binary data (images, sounds, zip files, etc) into 
>email messages. Most clients get it right, but you get the occasional one 
>which gets fouled up. You *might* have joy from trying to read the message 
>in a different client, but it's quite possible that the problem that 
>afflicts the message you're receiving will carry over to any copies you 
>make.
>       Often you can retrieve the data by saving the *entire* message as  
>TEXT FILE, THEN TRYING TO FEED THIS INTO (bLOODY cAPSlOCK KEY!) a 
>stand-alone decoding program. These have been available since the days of 
>MS-DOS 2.x, if not earlier, and your local code repository should have 
>numerous examples to try. Generally, I don't bother trying - my reader is 
>pretty good about these things. I have a UU-decoder program, but I don't 
>think that I've used it in 2 years. It's a command-line one, and I've got 
>some old ( Win3.11 ? ) .PIF and .BAT files for it's care and feeding, but 
>I'd have to RTFM to work out how to make it work these days.

Winzip and Winrar can do uuencoded files.

In article <avb...@4ax.com>, Bateau wrote:
> Winzip and Winrar can do uuencoded files.
>
       Can they? I thought that I'd seen something that did UUdecoding 
more recently than I'd used that cobbled-together mess of things that 
surrounds the DOS program. Didn't remember it was WinZip though. (I've 
never needed to use WinRAR yet, though I had heard of it; WinZip I 
ditched about 6 months ago for 7zip; at work TPTB dumped it for 
something called ZipGenie IIRC). I'll file that info for future use - 
WinZip is something that resides in my break-in/ utilities CD for 
<ahemm> sorting out user errors.
       
-- 
Aidan Karley,
Geologist,
"You are in a maze of twisty little presentation styles, all [different 
| alike]."

In <VA....@mynameplus1.demon.co.uk.invalid>, Aidan
Karley wrote:

>I thought that I'd seen something that did UUdecoding 
>more recently than I'd used that cobbled-together mess of things that 
>surrounds the DOS program.

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