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Buck & Tilly Buchanan wrote:
>
> This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
>
> --------------313E5BC941A9
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
> Does anyone know how to extract an animated .gif file from an email
> message in Netscape Mail?
>
> I've attempted to forward one that come to me this way and hope you can
> see what I'm talking about.
>
> In Netscape Mail, you can click View|Attachments Inline to see the file
> if it came through all right.
>
Dave Chisma wrote:
There might be a few ways to extract your gif, but here's one that
worked for me.
I saved the e-mail with a .UUE file extension and used Winzip to open
the UUE file.
Winzip said there were 4 text files and ANIPLAYR.GIF.
I extracted ANIPLAYR.GIF and opened it in Netscape. It seemed to work
fine.
Cheers, Dave Chisma
chisma -at- c031 -dot- aone -dot- net -dot- au
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