Somewhat <OT>: yEnc and Mozilla News Reader

[Net Llama!]

yEnc isn't all that new, its been flying around the usenet binary groups
for close to a year now.  Its a modern replacement for the old uuencoding
tool.  You'd definitely need a 3rd party tool to decode these things.

On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
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> It seems a new encoding is on the 'net (new to me at least). It is yEnc, and is a message encoder that encodes in all the characters allowed in e-mail messages. Smaller attachments and all that.
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> The encoding starts like:
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> =ybegin part=1 line=128 size=304418 name=glop.mp3
> =ypart begin=1 end=304418
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> My question is, how would one get Mozilla to decode with this? As I can see it, it would need to look for the text '=ybegin' in the message. Would I need to save it to a file and 'ydecode' it? I used to use elm for this, as it yould send a message to a program. I guess I am hoping that someone will know a trick I don't here with Mozilla. There is scant support for it in news readers, so I am suprised that it is popping up. No hits on Mozilla.org. Not for Opera either.
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