[Info-vax] tpu bug?

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote 2011-07-25 07:43:
> In article<j0hg3s$i7o$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm
> <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com>  writes:
>
>> Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote 2011-07-24 16:11:
>>
>>> I have a file of size 43822 blocks extracted from VMS MAIL.  It contains
>>> some JPEG files as attachments.
>>>
>>
>> Are the files attached using proper MIME encoding headers ?
>
> Probably.
>
>> I use MUNPACK to extrakt any MIME attachements on VMS.
>> MUNPACK does extraction and decoding at the same time.
>> Available from the usual VMS freeware sources.
>
> Maybe I should bite the bullet and investigate something like this (or
> even the native MIME utility---or is it still rather more trouble than
> it is worth?).
>

I have found the MIME.EXE utility not "batch-friendly". It mostly
expects itself to be runed and used interactively.

Apart from that, and if one accept som extra trouble in the batch-scripts,
it does work. And I have actuly switch to the MIME.EXE utility from
MPACK in our production scripts since some of our receviers had trouble
reading the attachments created by MPACK.

MUNPACK, otoh, works well for extracting and decoding of standard
attachments and is used in our production job (receiving of
tracability data for all outsourced production for Ericsson).

Jan-Erik.