[Phys-L] Re: pox ... also known as quoted-printable

[jsd at AV8N.COM (John Denker)]

Here's how I deal with the pox situation:

1) I don't run microsoft software, so I'm not a source of pox.

2) I can actually run programs on my computer.

Therefore, if I receive a message that suffers from the pox,
I can decode it.  Here is a perl script that will do the job:

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////
#!/usr/bin/perl

eval 'exec /usr/local/bin/perl  -S $0 ${1+"$@"}'
     if 0; # not running under some shell

use MIME::QuotedPrint qw(decode_qp);

while (<>) {
     print decode_qp($_);
}
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Another way of skinning the same cat is to use the qprint
program from John Walker
   http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/qprint/