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I'll try to wrap up this thread.  I received another e-mail with MSWord
attachment today.  I did the usual: extracted attachment with pine and
downloaded in binary mode.  I also saved the whole email with the base64
encoded attachment and downloaded in ascii mode, then ran bscit to extract
the attachment.  

Both extracted attachment files were exactly the same length, $6200 bytes.
File compare showed a difference at about $4824 offset.  The pine extracted
file was shifted toward origin by two bytes.  Several pages later there was
another 1 byte shift, so by the end of the file there was a three byte shift
in the byte patterns.

I took both files over to MacG3 and tried to open in Word.  The bscit
extracted file opened right up, everything OK and formatted.  The pine
extracted file would not open up at all.

So, I haven't learned what is wrong with pine extracted attachments yet,
but I now know the work around is to download the mime encoded file and
then extract with BscIT on my IIGS.  Back in business ...

Thanks for all the suggestions.

  --Steve

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