Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Jul 1999 18:31:24 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Mike A. Harris" <> | Subject | Re: New virtual in-memory file system |
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On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Riley Williams wrote:
> > --8<--cut here-------------- > > begin 644 virtfs.tar.gz > > M'XL(`/`UEC<``^T\:7O:V-7YBG[%R?(DV&&UC=W@<=XR-DYHO#V`9^D7C4`7 > > MT&,M6%?8X>VDO[WGG'NU`7;B)LY,6_1,'7&7L]^S26JE>N.$T4A6GSS>!3NU > >===8<=== CUT ===>8=== > > > M%YN(W#<*N>\LU22\?(GC-*PX+:/[CGA._6&.>4T>]1#&PA<AIG0I@)5?-8V< > > =M=]<7^MK?:VO];6^UM?Z6E]_Y/4O"<%%3@!0```` > > ` > > end > > --cut here-->8-------------- > >Obvious comment: What's all that junk for? I would presume it's some >sort of encrypted version of your file system, but I've no means of >handling it so can't do anything with it... > >Best wishes from Riley.
That is "uuencoding" which was THE standard for sending binary files via email not too long ago. Around 1995, MIME encoding (base64) started to become the new defacto standard. You can cut the file out, paste it into a text file, and then run:
uuencode < filename.uue
on it.. Or you can just tell the person to use something more sensible next time. ;o)
-- Mike A. Harris Linux advocate GNU advocate Computer Consultant Open Source advocate
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