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reply "John C" <johnch_atms hotmail.com> writes:
Off-topic, I know, but I'll ask anyway if someone knows how I might go about 
downloading attachments in posts that I've no longer got cached in my 
newsreader. The original message was about stack tracking and is viewable 
here http://www.digitalmars.com/drn-bin/wwwnews?digitalmars.D/22967 but 
neither Firefox nor IE will download the attachment, which is what I'm 
interested in. Do I have to download all headers back to May or is there a 
way in Thunderbird or OE to go straight to a specific message (22967)?

Thanks,
John.
Dec 11 2005
next sibling parent reply Thomas Kuehne <thomas-dloop kuehne.cn> writes:
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John C schrieb am 2005-12-11:

 Off-topic, I know, but I'll ask anyway if someone knows how I might go about 
 downloading attachments in posts that I've no longer got cached in my 
 newsreader. The original message was about stack tracking and is viewable 
 here http://www.digitalmars.com/drn-bin/wwwnews?digitalmars.D/22967 but 
 neither Firefox nor IE will download the attachment, which is what I'm 
 interested in. Do I have to download all headers back to May or is there a 
 way in Thunderbird or OE to go straight to a specific message (22967)?


Let's hack:

Copy the header (->Header button), add an emty line and past everything
from  http://www.digitalmars.com/drn-bin/wwwnews?digitalmars.D/22967 
(starting with "( Walter", ending with "Copyright").

Save the result as "some-news.nws", and double click on "some-news.nws"
in the MS Windows Explorer.

Thomas


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6n1uvqjbqbinO3Zl/UMpHyE=
=ZO9e
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Dec 11 2005
parent "John C" <johnch_atms hotmail.com> writes:
"Thomas Kuehne" <thomas-dloop kuehne.cn> wrote in message 
news:rltu63-utf.ln1 birke.kuehne.cn...

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 John C schrieb am 2005-12-11:

 Off-topic, I know, but I'll ask anyway if someone knows how I might go 
 about
 downloading attachments in posts that I've no longer got cached in my
 newsreader. The original message was about stack tracking and is viewable
 here http://www.digitalmars.com/drn-bin/wwwnews?digitalmars.D/22967 but
 neither Firefox nor IE will download the attachment, which is what I'm
 interested in. Do I have to download all headers back to May or is there 
 a
 way in Thunderbird or OE to go straight to a specific message (22967)?


 Let's hack:

 Copy the header (->Header button), add an emty line and past everything
 from  http://www.digitalmars.com/drn-bin/wwwnews?digitalmars.D/22967
 (starting with "( Walter", ending with "Copyright").

 Save the result as "some-news.nws", and double click on "some-news.nws"
 in the MS Windows Explorer.

 Thomas


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 iD8DBQFDnMeb3w+/yD4P9tIRAk2fAJ4uxHpi+39VZGPSjjEq38PjAGw7BACgr51E
 6n1uvqjbqbinO3Zl/UMpHyE=
 =ZO9e
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Thanks for the tip - worked a treat.
Dec 11 2005
prev sibling parent reply J C Calvarese <technocrat7 gmail.com> writes:
In article <dni6a0$t4n$1 digitaldaemon.com>, John C says...

Off-topic, I know, but I'll ask anyway if someone knows how I might go about 
downloading attachments in posts that I've no longer got cached in my 
newsreader. The original message was about stack tracking and is viewable 
here http://www.digitalmars.com/drn-bin/wwwnews?digitalmars.D/22967 but 
neither Firefox nor IE will download the attachment, which is what I'm 
interested in. Do I have to download all headers back to May or is there a 
way in Thunderbird or OE to go straight to a specific message (22967)?

Thanks,
John. 


I've put some tips on this here for what I do:
http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?NewsDmD#DecodingAttachments

But Thomas Kuehne's method looks easier than what I do, so if that works for you
that's probably the way to go. ;)

Basically, you need to decode the attachment (they're either in base64 or
uuencoded). In this specific case, it's uuencoded. Here's D source for a couple
of decoders...

Base64 decoder:
http://trac.dsource.org/projects/tutorials/wiki/BaseSixtyFourExample

UUDECODE: 
http://trac.dsource.org/projects/tutorials/wiki/UudecodeExample

jcc7
Dec 13 2005
parent pragma <pragma_member pathlink.com> writes:
In article <dnm590$kbj$1 digitaldaemon.com>, J C Calvarese says...

In article <dni6a0$t4n$1 digitaldaemon.com>, John C says...

Off-topic, I know, but I'll ask anyway if someone knows how I might go about 
downloading attachments in posts that I've no longer got cached in my 
newsreader. The original message was about stack tracking and is viewable 
here http://www.digitalmars.com/drn-bin/wwwnews?digitalmars.D/22967 but 
neither Firefox nor IE will download the attachment, which is what I'm 
interested in. Do I have to download all headers back to May or is there a 
way in Thunderbird or OE to go straight to a specific message (22967)?

Thanks,
John. 


I've put some tips on this here for what I do:
http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?NewsDmD#DecodingAttachments

But Thomas Kuehne's method looks easier than what I do, so if that works for you
that's probably the way to go. ;)

Basically, you need to decode the attachment (they're either in base64 or
uuencoded). In this specific case, it's uuencoded. Here's D source for a couple
of decoders...

Base64 decoder:
http://trac.dsource.org/projects/tutorials/wiki/BaseSixtyFourExample

UUDECODE: 
http://trac.dsource.org/projects/tutorials/wiki/UudecodeExample

jcc7


Another thing that helps is that winzip will open saved uuencoded data if you
save it with a .uu extension. I usually just copy everything from the line with
the filename down to the end of the encoded block into my text editor and safe
it out to "foo.uu"; it works every time.

- EricAnderton at yahoo
Dec 13 2005