I received a message with an attachment which Pathworks Mail for DOS (or Mail for Macintosh) can decode. Is there any way to decode the attachment?
[Email-Translation] Note: Users should keep in mind that E-mail should really only be used to transfer text. While recent innovations have allowed E-mail to carry much more than simple text messages, there’s no guarantee that a file which is encoded as text and send via E-mail to another person can, in fact, be read by that person in its native format. For example, if you encode a Microsoft Word document and send it to someone via E-mail without checking with the recipient that (s)he has a version of Microsoft Word which can read the file (or an application which can import a MS Word document), you really have no idea as to whether or not the recipient will be able to read the attachment. On the other hand, if you save the MS Word document as text and send this within the body of the message, anyone should be able to read it without any further decoding. If you are requesting that someone send you a file via E-mail, be sure to specify what application(s) you have to read it, and how yo
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