[Info-vax] To MIME or not to MIME

[George Cornelius]

In article <00B315B1.2B4A21C6 at SendSpamHere.ORG>, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
> In article <ntNqvNtRQoS5 at eisner.encompasserve.org>, cornelius at eisner.decus.org (George Cornelius) writes:
>>In article <00B30BB2.688FB617 at SendSpamHere.ORG>, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
>>> 
>>> Bingo!  Problem determined.  
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Content-Type: image/jpeg
>>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
>>> Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="=?UTF-8?b?QmFsc2EuanBn?="


[Next courtesy Debian/GNU Linux]

$ base64 --help
Usage: base64 [OPTION]... [FILE]
Base64 encode or decode FILE, or standard input, to standard output.

With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
  -d, --decode          decode data
  -i, --ignore-garbage  when decoding, ignore non-alphabet characters
  -w, --wrap=COLS       wrap encoded lines after COLS character (default 76).
                          Use 0 to disable line wrapping

[...]

$ echo "QmFsc2EuanBn" | base64 --decode | tee /tmp/rocketman
Balsa.jpg

$ od -tc /tmp/rocketman
0000000   B   a   l   s   a   .   j   p   g
0000011

$ od -tx1 /tmp/rocketman
0000000 42 61 6c 73 61 2e 6a 70 67
0000011

>>> Content-ID: <ee8bdd05-5d43-8d03-f9cd-139db0dd7eea at yahoo.com>

>>I am not surprised that MIME.EXE cannot cope with UTF-8.  The unfortunate
>>part is that it does not fail in a way that leaves the output name
>>undetermined and then return you to its command prompt. Within the
>>MIME utility, once the specified filename has been parsed and saved,
>>it can be overridden later via a subsequent output command.
 
> FWIW, the "Balsa.jpg" email attached image which prompted my initial post was
> from a rocket kit that I'd recently received.

[...]

>              It's not rocket science! ;)

Well, there's your problem.

Be careful though, you may have invented a new catch phrase for VMS
to replace the one from the old UK VAX vacuum cleaner ads!
 
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