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It appears that I can't just copy the text out and email it to myself using
plain-text encoding.  All I get with that is the original text that I pasted
in.
Ideas?
--Brendan
<<

Not sure if you mean that your mailreader does not decode the data
or what , but here's what I do for most mime stuff I get in Digests
instead of the attachments sent with individual emails -
Select all relevant mime stuff and copy to a text file.
Open Winzip and drap 'n drop the text file.
Winzip decodes open from there..


Probably when e-mail it to yourself you need a header in the style of:

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

------=_NextPart_000_001F_01C21D3B.CF036F60
Content-Type: text/plain;
        charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
XXXXXXX   Etcetera
------=_NextPart_000_001F_01C21D3B.CF036F60
Content-Type: image/jpeg;
        name="Tait-ICSP.jpg"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment;
        filename="Tait-ICSP.jpg"

hope it does not screw up somewhere.
 Have a look at the message source of a e-mail you send
 with an attachment ....
Just use Winzip , simply.

Regards
Vis Naicker

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