Hi there --

I received an email with a file included, but which (due to some
unintended reformatting) came thru simply as plain ASCII text in the
body of the email.  I'd like to paste this into a text document, then
run a utility to convert it to the intended file.

How can I do this?  (I have WinZip and StuffIt, if that helps.)

Thanks!

[beginning of text in question follows]

~~~

Content-Type: application/x-zip-compressed;
       name="filename.zip"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Description: filename.zip
Content-Disposition: attachment;
       filename="filename.zip"

UEsDBAoAAAAAAFxwVzUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATAAAARUY1NTA5NkYvTWFjaW50b3NoL1BLAwQKAAAA
AACFcB81AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAJQAAAEVGNTUwOTZGL01hY2ludG9zaC9Eb25nbGVVcGRhdGVyLmFw

[... etc. ...]

~~~

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Request for Question Clarification by sublime1-ga on 23 Oct 2006 21:59 PDT

rnd13...

The file attachment is purportedly a zip file, but if this were
the case, and the file had somehow been converted to text, it
would begin with the header of a zip file, which is PK.

What you have there is either not a zip file, but another type
of file renamed as a zip file (in which case it could be a virus),
or it is a corrupted file (if it originally WAS a zip file, it
cannot be restored).

Let me know where this takes you...

sublime1-ga

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Clarification of Question by rnd13-ga on 24 Oct 2006 01:22 PDT

Found it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64#External_links
http://4mhz.de/b64dec.html  (et al)

Thanks.

Good point.  But it depends on how "somehow" it were converted to
text.  If it were in the usual base-256 (i.e., double-byte
hexadecimal), that would be the case.

However, this uses a variation on base-64; in which case, the
characters don't translate to text the same way as they otherwise
would.

Thanks, though.  

[For what it's worth, according to Wotsit.org, the header of a Zip
file starts as follows:
   central file header signature   4 bytes  (0x02014b50) ]


Anyone with any ideas on how to convert the text in question back to a binary file?