winmail.dat attachments

[dnc@bigfoot.com]

I often receive attachments called simply "winmail.bat" of type
application/ms-tnef.  Often I can ignore these, but sometimes they
contain attachments that I'm geniunely interested in.  (At least I
think they do.)  Can gnus handle these properly?

I suspected this was a FAQ, so I did a few minutes research on the
web.  I saw some comments to the effect that winmail.dat simply
contained underlining, font and other rich text information, and
therefore it was safe to ignore it (because you still get the email
text).  But I don't think this is correct.  I think these days
winmail.dat can actually contain other attachments.  I also saw a post
(from Simon if memory serves) referring to an application 'tnef2txt'
which could grok this garbage, but I haven't been able to find
tnef2txt.  I suspect it will not work with the attachments, anyway.

So I apologize if this is a faq.  I'm hoping to get some accurate
information, and hopefully get these attachment to work with gnus,
cause I'm tired of asking people to resend attachments to me.
(Although I never tire of telling them how lame their email client
is).

BTW I'm using Gnus 5.8.8 on Windows 2000.

Thanks.

-Dave