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.

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

"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
>
>
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>
> iD8DBQFDnMeb3w+/yD4P9tIRAk2fAJ4uxHpi+39VZGPSjjEq38PjAGw7BACgr51E
> 6n1uvqjbqbinO3Zl/UMpHyE=
> =ZO9e
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Thanks for the tip - worked a treat.

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

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