BLITZ BASIC 2 mailing list help

[Raislin77it]

struggling in the search of various examples and source codes, i've found on Blitz200 various blitz-lists message packs.

in particular the archive BlitzLstMay99.lha seems interesting

in the guide file , there are various attachment, unfortunately encoded in ascii,it is possible to reconvert the "ascii attachment" to the equivalent binary ?




for example :

--=_=8<==MD23739704D-72A0B574==8<=_=
Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="CrapFighter.lha"
X-MD2-FilePath: Ram Disk:CrapFighter.lha
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etc etc, it seems usefull if we can reconvert the ascii data to the binary archive, to look inside

anybody have an idea how to convert it?

[leathered]

I wonder if you just need the right program to open it with? Looks like the kind of corruption I get when I open ascii files with Open Office.
I use Note Tab Lite for ascii files. It might help.
But have you tried loading it into Blitz with load ascii?

[Raislin77it]

Originally Posted by leathered

I wonder if you just need the right program to open it with? Looks like the kind of corruption I get when I open ascii files with Open Office.
I use Note Tab Lite for ascii files. It might help.
But have you tried loading it into Blitz with load ascii?

unfortunately it is a mail attachment converted to ascii

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Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="CrapFighter.lha" <- the name of the attachment

some "genius" used YamToGuide to create an amigaguide of mail from the blitz-list and the relative attachment of the mail, instead of create the guide of the mails, and archive these attachments

maybe with an hex editor i can grab the ascci of the lha and recreate the proper lha archive

[thomas]

This is base64 encoded. Check Aminet for a base64 decoder, there are many.

[Raislin77it]

Originally Posted by thomas

This is base64 encoded. Check Aminet for a base64 decoder, there are many.

great ! with Base64Coders.lha i've reconstructed the archive! thanks

[Havie]

wWould it be possible to upload this to the zone? I'm always on the lookout for more Blitz info.

[Raislin77it]

Originally Posted by Havie

wWould it be possible to upload this to the zone? I'm always on the lookout for more Blitz info.

sure, is in the zone

[Havie]

Thanks a lot, very helpful.