Re: Apple (NOT A MAC) IIgs and MIME

[bi720@lafn.org (William Teagardin)]

In a previous article, CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney) says:

>On Sat, 1 May 1999 08:46:26 GMT, bi720@lafn.org (William Teagardin)
>wrote:
>
>>        I am useing an Apple (NOT A MAC) IIgs running GSOS 6.01
>>and need to find a MIME decode program to unscramble the atachments
>>to E-Mail that I receive.
>>        So far my research has come up with the NAMES (only) of
>>MIME64.BXY,  StolenBase,  and MARCEL.BXY  which may or may not
>>do the job.  As yet I have been unable to locate copies of any of
>>these programs.  GENIE and DELPHI are both unavailable to me as
>>I do NOT have a "frames capeabile" system and the only cookies
>>available all contain chocolate chips (is there any other kind?).
>>I still don't understand how Delphi can claim to be the ultimate
>>Apple II suport location when you can't sign up unless you have 
>>a "compatable clone" system.  ??? am I missing something ???
>>        If anyone has a MIME decoder which will run on (NOT_A_MAC)
>>system please forward it to me in binary, BXY, or SHK format., or
>>E-Mail me at  bi720@lafn.org with a reference to the web location
>>where I can download it.
>>        Thanks for your help in advance and regards from the 
>>Trailing Edge Of Technology.
>
>Others have already mentioned the StolenBase NDA but I haven't seen
>anyone mention that Spectrum comes with an XCMD that allows you to
>encode and decode BINscii, UUencode, BinHex and MIME messages both
>from the programs menus as well as from within scripts.
>
>Spectrum v2.2 also supports TCP/IP connections using Marinetti so you
>can actually get your e-mail using Spectrum and then decode any
>attachments.  This can be done either manually or with a script.
>
>I am also working on an e-mail client for the IIgs that uses Marinetti
>and it will support encoding and decoding but I'm not sure if it will
>be in the intial release.  At this point I'm just trying to get
>something working stable enough that I can release it.
>
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	The MIME problem is solved.  A kind user Snail-Mailed me a 
diskette with StolenBASE NDA which does the job just fine. Then 
I discovered that the file I was trying to open had been ZIPed.
I had picked up a copy of PMPUnZip20.BSQ back in March but was 
unable to opean it with GShrinkIT.  A local friend explained that
the file had been double wraped and sent me on a search for GSCII.
Which I found on the ground archive site but when I "clicked" on
the file name lafn/LYNX used the HTML decoder and displayed it 
on the screen full of line-feeds and useless. I finaly determined
that lafn/LYNX doesn't know what the Apple (NOT A MAC) file 
extentions are all about so treated a .shk file as a text/html
file and displayed it.  This was got arround by useing the "d"
command from the keyboard to force lafn/LYNX to "Download" the
active link on the current site. Then I discovered that the file
on "ground.icaen.uiowa.edu/apple2" was corupted and wouldn't
un-Shrink so I went to "ftp.gno.org/pub/apple2" and got a clean
copy that worked. Where-upon I discovered that the three ZIPed
text files were in MicroSoft WORD format.  If I chose the C/R
option during UnZIP I was left with a "clean paragraph" format
text file with only a few k bytes of "control/formating" char
at each end to discard and FINALLY A USEABLE TEXT FILE !!!
	Thanks to all the group readers who contacted me with
their sugestions and offers of help.

Regards from The Trailing Edge of Technology.



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William & Janet Teagardin
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