I've received an email that should have had a pdf file attached but somehow it has become detached and has found its way into the the main body of the message so I get text saying something like: begin 600 4644.pdf M)5!$1BTQ+C,-)?____\-,2`P(&]BT\/`TO5&ET;&4@*/[_`#0`-@`T`#0` M+@!D`&\`8RD-+U!R;V1U8V5R("A!;7EU;FD@1&]C=6UE;G0@0V]N=F5R=&5R M*0TO5F5R<VEO;B`H5F5R<VEO;B`R+C4P8BTR("T@3&EC96YS960@=&\@0RY! etc.etc. Anyone got any ideas how I might be able to recover the file? I've tried cutting and pasting the code into a text file and renaming it as a pdf but Acrobat doesn't recognise it. I have asked the sender to re-send but they are fuckwits and it'll take them ages to do so. Any assistance would be appreciated.
I didn't actually post a binary. It was just text that your particular news reader interpreted as such. IIRC a couple of years back this fooling of Outlook by one two mischief makers was all the rage on UKRM.
Save it to a text file. Use a tool like uudeview (http://www.miken.com/uud/) to decompress and decode it. Phil
That's UUEncoded text - the way of encoding a binary into text form so it doesn't get screwed up by machines that can't "handle" binary data. There are a few things you can do: Save the text from the BEGIN line to the END line into a file and call it <something>.uue then try and open it. You may have something installed on your system that will handle the uue file (like winzip or Outlook or Netscape) and be able to turn it back into a binary. Save the whole message as <something>.msg and try opening it in another email program, such as Outlook, OE or Netscape, as this may well be able to decode the encoded text back into a binary file. Install something that can accept uue text and turn it back into binary. Google is your friend. I would assume that their email client has fucked it up somehow (either the attachment or the way the attachment has been added) and so your mail client just doesn't recognise it as such. hth,
