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
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> -----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