HW: Gig list

Martyn White white at BORG.MED.ECU.EDU
Tue Jan 21 11:44:46 EST 1997


I had asked:
>         I am running a workstation (digital unix 2.0).  How do
> I process the file that Bernhard just posted??

Ken replied:

>If you've got a mime-complaint mail reader program, then it should have
>allowed you to process the encoded data and save it to a file.
>If you don't, then you can possibly run the data through a separate
>decoder program, such as piping it through 'metamail'.  If you have
>no such program, then you might be able to download one.  If you can't
>find one, then you're toast.
>
>After this, you're left with a ZIP file.  Use the 'unzip' program to
>unzip it.  If you don't have unzip, you can probably download it.
>If you can't find it, then you're toast.

        AAAAAARRGGHHHHH.  I'm toast.  I find this sort of thing
really annoying.  Surely the files aren't _that_ big such that this
kind of encoding is necessary before they are posted.

PLEASE READ
*       I propose that we make a rule on this list that all posts
*are operating system independent.  Not everbody likes microsoft!

Martyn



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