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No, pine is handling the MIME/base64 decoding just fine (uuencoding is not
involved) - but there may be a problem.  I need some unix (AIX, or HPUX, or
DomainOS - I can use three different machines, accounts).  I may have
discovered the problem.

I took a CC: attachement file from my boss'es PPC7200 which opens OK in
Word and copied it to a HFS disk.  I opened the same mail on my AIX pine
system and extracted the attachment file.  I downloaded this file to my
IIGS harddrive (ProDOS) with PT3.1 and zmodem.  Then under GSOS (6.0.1) I
used Bill Tudor's File Compare finder extra to compare the two files.

Some things were expected, like the resource fork on the Mac extracted file.
              Pine/GS-PT3                EudoraPro/Mac


Filetype      $0006                      $0000
Auxtype       $00000000                  $00000000
Access        $00E3                      $00E3
storType      $0002                      $0005

(Date and ModDate are different because the files were extracted/downloaded
on different dates   (Apr 13 vs Apr 5)

DateSize      $00004E00                  $00004E00
Res Size      $00000000                  $0000011E

Ok, file info differs but is what I expect.  Now, compare DATA FORK ...

$0000:         04 00 00 09 04 ...         00 04 00 00 09 04 ...

The Mac file has ONE extra leading byte.  The entire file is identical but
the Apple II file is shifted ONE byte left toward the origin throughout.

I need some unix help.  How can I look at a hex dump of a unix file to see
if the extra byte was there before I downloaded the file (ie, it was lost
by pine and not the Apple II).  My next experiment will be to prepend a 00 to
a downloaded file and see if Word will correctly recognize that file.

I appreciate the feedback from supertimer and Nick.  I agree with Nick that
one helpful thing would be for my Texas boss to change his e-mail method,
but really ...   This is a Boss, he doesn't have a problem - I have a problem!
Sort of demands a different solution. ;-)

Have a productive day!

  --Steve

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 --Steve  (apple2pd@ground.ecn.uiowa.edu)