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Conference turris::digital_unix

Title:	DIGITAL UNIX(FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1)
Notice:	Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference
Moderator:	SMURF::DENHAM

Created:	Thu Mar 16 1995
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	10068
Total number of notes:	35879

9352.0. "how to decode base64?" by GIDDAY::STRAUSS (talking through my binoculars) Wed Apr 02 1997 02:44

    Is there a UNIX tool which can decode base64 data?
    Something equivalent to uudecode?
    
    I've inherited a file containing base64-encoded data which I want to
    decode back into plain text.  The only suggestions I've seen so far
    have involved mailing the file to myself using a mailer which supports
    MIME.  Surely there's an easier way?
    
    Thanks in advance for any hints.
    
    	leon

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9352.1	See LJSRV2::INTERNET_TOOLS note 1486	VIRGIN::SUTTER	Who are you ??? - I'm BATMAN !!!	`Wed Apr 02 1997 03:59`	1
	See LJSRV2::INTERNET_TOOLS note 1486
9352.2	See also: mpack/munpack	SUBPAC::FARICELLI		`Wed Apr 02 1997 14:45`	8
	See also: mpack/munpack. Mpack/munpack is available from ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/mpack Just "make" on Digital Unix. With some judicious commenting, I was able to compile munpack on VMS. -- John Faricelli
9352.3		HELIX::SONTAKKE		`Thu Apr 03 1997 12:28`	13
	Also do AltaVista for "+BASE64 +encdec" I found encdec.c program, nothing fancy but it works fine. kamlia 14% encdec encdec: usage: encdec -e/-d -b/-q Encdec encodes or decodes stdin and prints the result to stdout. -e encode -d decode -b use base64 -q use quoted-printable
9352.4	munpack worked!	GIDDAY::STRAUSS	talking through my binoculars	`Thu Apr 03 1997 17:08`	9
	Thanks to everyone for the fast and varied responses! In the end, munpack did the job - which was to show a customer that the base64-encoded log file he had sent me didn't contain the information I needed to solve his problem ... Thanks again leon