This is my most recent item of software - it codes and decodes attachments to e-mails within the RiscOS environment. It supports the two most common ways of coding, uucode and MIME base64, coding and decoding each. It only works within the RiscOS operating system, not Windows, Linux or Mac OS.

Attacher works on the desktop and is a doddle to use. Basically you drag message files to it, either from the Filer or another application (such as TTFN or Messenger) and it codes or decodes them. It will also rebuild uuencoded files that have been split across several messages before decoding them and it makes a pretty good guess at the Risc OS filetypes of decoded files that originated on DOS or Windows PCs.

It will unpack several files from the same message (although if the sender has mixed uucode and base64 in the same message it will only decode all of the files coded in the same method as the first file in the message).

Attacher completely replaces two earlier applications of mine, UUcoder and 64coder and is more actively maintained than the old applications. It was designed to run under RiscOS 3 but I hope that version 1.04 fixes the problems that became apparent when running under RiscOS 4 and the new Pace SharedCLibrary - although I cannot warrant that all problems are solved.

Download my final release, version 1.04 (zip file)

Latest: In 2008 Frank de Bruijn has kindly produced a clean 32-bit version 1.05 which he has tested on RISC OS 4.39 (RPC) and 5.13 (Iyonix), so I am happy to make that available from this site. Please feedback to me on this version.

Download Frank's updated version 1.05 (zip file)

Download the full MIME technical specification (zip file)

©John Allen 2008