openSUSE users can install
UUDeview from YaST to decode these files. This shell utility decodes all manner of
attached-file formats, including yEnc and MIME.
yEnc
This format, with a name derived from smushing together the words ???My Encoder,??? is
freely available. Mostly used in the Usenet binaries newsgroups, it can also be used for
attaching files to email. The developer, J??rgen Helbring, insists that if you use it in email,
you must include the word ???yEnc??? in the subject heading. This serves both to warn recipients
that there is an attachment with this message and to spread the word about the
format.
UUDeview will decode these attachments for you. You??™ll find a list of yEnc-friendly Linux
applications at http://www.yenc.org/linux.htm.
UUEncode/UUDecode
These venerable utilities are included in the sharutils package installed by default in
openSUSE. If you know you have a UUEncoded file, you can use UUDecode to extract the
file. The telltale sign that an attachment has been UUEncoded is that in the top line,
along with the filename, is the three-digit permissions indicator.
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