Re: yEnc.msg files and formats

RickBrown <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.apps.pan.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hiya all:

I fancy I can decode the yEnc. The question is; once decoded, what do I 
have?

Thanks -Rick


On 03/09/21 18:08, Sarah Taylor wrote:
> There seem to be several choices for a yenc decoder in various Linux
> distros.  Have you searched for a yenc decoder?  It's been a long time
> since I used one, but as I recall the process wasn't difficult.
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 8:01 PM Rickbrown <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Greetings:
>>
>> When I select a header file indicating yEnc encoding to download I get a larger "attachment" file and a collection of .msg files. What is in the attachment file is a mystery, but it is some sort of amalgamation of the information in the .msg files.
>>
>>
>> The .msg files contain a header section and a yEnc encoded binary data section. I assume this to be image data for a single image. I can run a rough decode over the data by subtracting out the 0x2a that was added to the data characters as part of yEnc process and ignoring escapes. Then scanning the decoded data I can find no indication of what the data is or what the format is.
>>
>>
>> Do you know? Do you know where documentation of this product exists? How to use these products? I live in the Linux world.
>>
>>
>> Thanks -RickBrown in Reno, Nv
>>
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