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Off-topic, I know, but I'll ask anyway if someone knows how I might go about downloading attachments in posts that I've no longer got cached in my newsreader. The original message was about stack tracking and is viewable here http://www.digitalmars.com/drn-bin/wwwnews?digitalmars.D/22967 but neither Firefox nor IE will download the attachment, which is what I'm interested in. Do I have to download all headers back to May or is there a way in Thunderbird or OE to go straight to a specific message (22967)? Thanks, John. |
December 11, 2005 Re: old newsgroup attachments | ||||
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Posted in reply to John C Attachments: | John C schrieb am 2005-12-11: > Off-topic, I know, but I'll ask anyway if someone knows how I might go about downloading attachments in posts that I've no longer got cached in my newsreader. The original message was about stack tracking and is viewable here http://www.digitalmars.com/drn-bin/wwwnews?digitalmars.D/22967 but neither Firefox nor IE will download the attachment, which is what I'm interested in. Do I have to download all headers back to May or is there a way in Thunderbird or OE to go straight to a specific message (22967)? Let's hack: Copy the header (->Header button), add an emty line and past everything from http://www.digitalmars.com/drn-bin/wwwnews?digitalmars.D/22967 (starting with "( Walter", ending with "Copyright"). Save the result as "some-news.nws", and double click on "some-news.nws" in the MS Windows Explorer. Thomas |
December 11, 2005 Re: old newsgroup attachments | ||||
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Posted in reply to Thomas Kuehne | "Thomas Kuehne" <thomas-dloop@kuehne.cn> wrote in message news:rltu63-utf.ln1@birke.kuehne.cn... > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > John C schrieb am 2005-12-11: >> Off-topic, I know, but I'll ask anyway if someone knows how I might go >> about >> downloading attachments in posts that I've no longer got cached in my >> newsreader. The original message was about stack tracking and is viewable >> here http://www.digitalmars.com/drn-bin/wwwnews?digitalmars.D/22967 but >> neither Firefox nor IE will download the attachment, which is what I'm >> interested in. Do I have to download all headers back to May or is there >> a >> way in Thunderbird or OE to go straight to a specific message (22967)? > > Let's hack: > > Copy the header (->Header button), add an emty line and past everything > from http://www.digitalmars.com/drn-bin/wwwnews?digitalmars.D/22967 > (starting with "( Walter", ending with "Copyright"). > > Save the result as "some-news.nws", and double click on "some-news.nws" in the MS Windows Explorer. > > Thomas > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > iD8DBQFDnMeb3w+/yD4P9tIRAk2fAJ4uxHpi+39VZGPSjjEq38PjAGw7BACgr51E > 6n1uvqjbqbinO3Zl/UMpHyE= > =ZO9e > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Thanks for the tip - worked a treat. |
December 13, 2005 Re: old newsgroup attachments | ||||
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Posted in reply to John C | In article <dni6a0$t4n$1@digitaldaemon.com>, John C says... > >Off-topic, I know, but I'll ask anyway if someone knows how I might go about downloading attachments in posts that I've no longer got cached in my newsreader. The original message was about stack tracking and is viewable here http://www.digitalmars.com/drn-bin/wwwnews?digitalmars.D/22967 but neither Firefox nor IE will download the attachment, which is what I'm interested in. Do I have to download all headers back to May or is there a way in Thunderbird or OE to go straight to a specific message (22967)? > >Thanks, >John. I've put some tips on this here for what I do: http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?NewsDmD#DecodingAttachments But Thomas Kuehne's method looks easier than what I do, so if that works for you that's probably the way to go. ;) Basically, you need to decode the attachment (they're either in base64 or uuencoded). In this specific case, it's uuencoded. Here's D source for a couple of decoders... Base64 decoder: http://trac.dsource.org/projects/tutorials/wiki/BaseSixtyFourExample UUDECODE: http://trac.dsource.org/projects/tutorials/wiki/UudecodeExample jcc7 |
December 13, 2005 Re: old newsgroup attachments | ||||
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Posted in reply to J C Calvarese | In article <dnm590$kbj$1@digitaldaemon.com>, J C Calvarese says... > >In article <dni6a0$t4n$1@digitaldaemon.com>, John C says... >> >>Off-topic, I know, but I'll ask anyway if someone knows how I might go about downloading attachments in posts that I've no longer got cached in my newsreader. The original message was about stack tracking and is viewable here http://www.digitalmars.com/drn-bin/wwwnews?digitalmars.D/22967 but neither Firefox nor IE will download the attachment, which is what I'm interested in. Do I have to download all headers back to May or is there a way in Thunderbird or OE to go straight to a specific message (22967)? >> >>Thanks, >>John. > >I've put some tips on this here for what I do: http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?NewsDmD#DecodingAttachments > >But Thomas Kuehne's method looks easier than what I do, so if that works for you that's probably the way to go. ;) > >Basically, you need to decode the attachment (they're either in base64 or uuencoded). In this specific case, it's uuencoded. Here's D source for a couple of decoders... > >Base64 decoder: http://trac.dsource.org/projects/tutorials/wiki/BaseSixtyFourExample > >UUDECODE: http://trac.dsource.org/projects/tutorials/wiki/UudecodeExample > >jcc7 Another thing that helps is that winzip will open saved uuencoded data if you save it with a .uu extension. I usually just copy everything from the line with the filename down to the end of the encoded block into my text editor and safe it out to "foo.uu"; it works every time. - EricAnderton at yahoo |
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