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Subject: Re: pgnus & winmail.dat?
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On 29 Nov 1999 17:31:56 -0500
in article <863dtp9bfn.fsf@megalith.bp.aventail.com>
wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry) said:

  > Bill White <billw@wolfram.com> writes:
  >> Can pgnus extract any usable information from this winmail.dat
  >> thingie? 

  > Did you look at what that looks like base64-decoded?  It is
  > abysmal binary garbage, you can ALMOST see bits and pieces of his
  > textual email in there, but barely.  Things like

  > I waI^D go^K\200g ^K\200

  > ^K == 'i'
  > \200 == 'n'

  > WTF?

Heh - yeah, I took a look in there and was really curious about what
micro$soft was up to with all that binary crap. Did you see Simon's
post to the list with tnef2txt, et. al.? Pretty nifty stuff - thanks,
Simon. 

bw
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