On 27 Jul 2009, at 19:07, Norman Jenson wrote:

I get an occasional email attachment that shows up with a begin 644 and a bunch of characters. I tried to run it through the uudecode and get the following message:

uudecode: \n\tinput file: stdin\n\tencoded file: IntCollect.txt-072709.txt\n\tcharacter out of range: [33-96]

Can someone help. Can I use texmate to fix files like this?

My guess is that the file is broken, that is why your email program did not show it as decoded and why uudecode gives you an error.

You can’t fix broken files unless you have the function which broke them, and this function is reversible.