Re: [HELP] uudecode an email from VN

[Vu Quoc HUNG <hung@vsb.cz>]

> Topic No. 16
> 
> Date: 17 Mar 1997 13:50 EST
> From: "Thai Nguyen" <tinguyen@nortel.ca>
> To: vnsa-l@csd.uwm.edu
> Subject: [HELP] uudecode an email from VN
> Message-ID: <199703171919.NAA11593@batch1.csd.uwm.edu>
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'd need a bit of help here. I received an email from VN which had been
> uuencoded (that's what my email system told me) and I did a uudecode on it but
> I've had a few problems. The uuencoded file starts with "begin 600 TMP8.$$$" so
> the file uudecoded is TMP8.$$$. That's what I got but when I tried to read it
> with vi TMP8.$$$, I had "TMP8.7522$ [New file]" and with cat TMP8.$$$, I got
> " cat: cannot open TMP8.7522$: No such file". What's going on here? I've never
> used uuencode and decode before so I might have missed something. I think the
> guy in Ha Noi must have sent me the email with uucp. Thanx!!
> 

Hi Ba'c Thai Nguyen tinguyen@nortel.ca,

Try
  vi TMP8.\$\$\$

Good luck.
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