Finally got PC-Pine working, through the bizarre process of Reading The Fine Manual and looking over the Linux config file. Think my problem with this stuff is realizing how much I don't know, rather than paying attention to what I do understand. Or I'm a spazz.
Motivated to do this because Eudora (well, version 3.x anyway) doesn't handle multiple POP accounts. Yeah, I know, write a batch file to swap out the ini's, and there shouldn't be an apostrophe on that, and shut the hell up.
Opened the newsreader on a lark (I have odd larks, and have requested that shutting the hell up already, yes?), and found the following message on rec.arts.comics.misc from one Jonathan Ian Mathers:
Hello All. Just a quick note to invite all to the Gloomy realm of Neurotically Yours. (It's a comic about a Goth chic and her rabid pet squirrel "Foamy") It's kinda like Vasquez's "Johnny The Homicidal Maniac" & "I Feel Sick"If anyone can think of some kind of promotional thing, let me know.
I'm trying to get this thing off the ground.Thanks All
Website Of Doom:
(Musical Commentary, Goth Chics & Foaming Squirrels)
www.4yrecords.comFree Music:
www.mp3.com/negativesockboy
(Is that <PRE> text working ok? Looks weird in IE 5.5 in 640 x 480, but so does everything else. . .)
If you don't know who Jhonen Vasquez is, this means nothing to you, but the art is similar without being a swipe, the sense of humor has that same feel, and why the hell are you here if you don't know who Jhonen is?
And the message had an encoded graphic! Yeah, that whole MIME "begin 666 {filename}" thing, and lots of seemingly-random characters. It's so old-school, most of you probably have no idea what I'm babbling about.
I'm hoping one of you can recommend a Windows decoding program, though.
What a great find. I have now have something else to obsess over. Thanks, I think.
save MIME or UU or binHex or yEnc data as file(s) and apply UUDEVIEW - available for Unix / DOS / Win32 console / Win32 GUI, free, here:
http://www.fpx.de/fp/Software/UUDeview/
yours wdk
Michele, de nada.
wdk, thanks, that worked perfectly. And without that pesky editing to remove the message header and body first that I remember from the Bad Old Days.
True, I'll probably never need it again because I rarely read USENET, but couldn't hurt, might help. And this World Wide Web thing might turn out to be a passing fad. . .
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Ummm........darn blak peepole.....dey al nead ta beee sint bak ta afreeka.......wite powar!!! Seagragaytion tadey seagragaytion fereva!!
nothing to see here...