Re: reassembling split message

Marc Buchalter wrote:
>I scanned a large file as a PDF file. It sent it to me split into 4
>parts. The first few lines of the first message are shown below.

   The key to re-assembling this file may be these lines from your
excerpt of one of the parts:

>Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
>...
>JVBERi0xLjQKJRamipIKNCAwIG9iago8PC9UeXBlL1hPYmplY3QKL1N1YnR5cGUvSW1hZ2UK
>L1dpZHRoIDI4MDAKL0hlaWdodCAxNzAwCi9CaXRzUGVyQ29tcG9uZW50IDEKL0NvbG9yU3Bh
>Y2UvRGV2aWNlR3JheQovRmlsdGVyIC9DQ0lUVEZheERlY29kZQovRGVjb2RlUGFybXMgPDwv
>Q29sdW1ucyAyODAwIC9Sb3dzIDE3MDA+PgovTGVuZ3RoIDYzMTQzCj4+CnN0cmVhbQoAEB9c

   This PDF file, like many attachments sent as MIME message parts in
email, appears to have been encoded in Base64, a method of using
printable ASCII characters to represent arbitrary binary data. You
can learn more about it at
<http://email.about.com/cs/standards/a/base64_encoding.htm>.

In the message "Re: [Micronet] reassembling split message", dated
2006-12-01, Jonathan Loran wrote:
>Do you have access to a Unix account? If so, I would save the
>attachments from each email message and name them as part1, part2
>etc. Then I would copy them all to your Unix account and run
>something like:
>
>cat part1 part2 part3 part4 > "1200706 PO File.pdf"

   Once you've followed Jonathan's instructions, or else re-assembled
the file's four parts, in order, in your favorite text editor and
saved it as plain text, you'll need to run the file through a Base64
decoder. That should generate the original PDF file as output.

   One possibility is this Base64 decoder for Windows and Unix:

   http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/base64/

Aron Roberts
Information Services and Technology

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Received on Mon Dec 04 2006 - 12:09:16 PST