2014-07-14



Today, I've received a  `winmain.dat'  attachment.  Unbelievable:
There  exist  proprietary mail attachment formats, like this one,
called Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format (TNEF). One  should
ignore such stuff! Unfortunately, I have to deal with the reality
sometimes. This time, I needed to extract the stuff; couldn't re-
quest  it  another  way.  To  my  luck, Debian includes a package
`tnef', which can decode such files. The man  page  was  perfect.
At  least  one  can deal with the problem in a sane way. And then
...  the TNEF-wrapped file was ... DOCX. --  Sad,  sad  computing
world!  :-(



Wrote a script to download whole directories from a password pro-
tected  Apache directory listing. It's more of a hack, but I used
it often enough to put it into a script:

     #!/bin/sh
     #
     # Give arguments to download these subfolders
     # To download everything, use: `dlscripte /'

     auth="--user=foo --password=bar"
     url=http://transfer.example.org/dir/

     for i do
             name=`perl -e 'use URI::Escape;print(uri_escape($ARGV[0]));' "$i"`
             wget -r -np -l 8 -nH --cut-dirs=1 -R index.html\* \
                     -R \*.gif $auth "$url/$name/"
     done

I escape the arguments to ease specifying names with  German  Um-
lauts, which people keep on using.

`-r -np' retrieves everything  *below*  some  directory  (limited
with  `-l  8').  `-nH  --cut-dirs=1'  specifies how the retrieved
files should be stored on disk.

index.html* and GIF files  are  rejected  because  they  are  the
directory listing meta layer.



http://marmaro.de/lue/        markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>