On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 06:10:59AM -0700, user list wrote:
> 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.

Which is included in libmime-base64-perl. Visit
/usr/share/doc/libmime-base64-perl/examples.

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