Thanks very much for the reply. The file is powerpoint. I will try your
first suggestion since a. I don't know perl (yet?) and b. I know nothing
of base64 encoding.
Art Edwards
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 01:01:29PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Arthur H. Edwards wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to decode an applefile ppt that is in base64 coding. I have
> > read that there is a utility base64-decode that might work? Because
> > packages is down, can someone tell me the appropriate package(s) to
> > read?
>
> Well, if the contents of that file aren't too big you could do something
> like this:
>
> perl -MMIME::Base64 -le 'print decode_base64("<encoded_text>")'
>
> Otherwise you might want to write a 5-line perl script for it.
>
> HTH
>
> Grx HdV
>
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