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Butch Bussen <[log in to unmask]>
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For blind ham radio operators <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 14 May 2007 20:41:44 -0700
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I''ll try that, but the attachment is part of the message, it doesn''t 
show up as an attachment.
73s
Butch Bussen
wa0vjr

On Mon, 14 May 2007, Lloyd Rasmussen wrote:

> Look for a large attachment called winmail.dat.  Then google for a program
> called WMDecode and read its documentation.  I think it is a command-line
> program; I used it successfully on a few things, then got Outlook.
>
>
> Lloyd Rasmussen, W3IUU, Kensington, Maryland
> Home:  http://lras.home.sprynet.com
> Work:  http://www.loc.gov/nls
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>> On Behalf Of Butch Bussen
>> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 4:35 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: attachments
>>
>> Ken is using outlook and is trying to send me an attachment, a pdf file.
>> I use pine and usually don't have any problem getting attachments.  They
>> come through in the main body of the message, after his text to me, I get
>> begin file name and then a lot of garbage.  I think I use to be able to
>> use uudecode or unpack which I still have, but can't seem to make this
>> work.  I'm obviously forgetting a step, haven done this in a long time.  I
>> saved the note as text and ran both programs on the text file, but it
>> doesn't creat a file with a pdf extension.  Any suggestions?
>> Thanks.
>> 73s
>> Butch Bussen
>> wa0vjr
>

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